Meeting Dave and Steve at the One World Café (CTG)
Meeting Dave and Steve at the One World Café
Three poets, survivors from the Sixties, meet for coffee and more.
Earlier, on my sixty-fourth birthday, an Ethiopian Evangelist tries
to save my mortal soul -- he offers to murmur a prayer for it.
The retired mailman, the ex-prison worker, and the still-slaving
editor (me) discuss the economy, how saps these days can't afford
to entirely retire: it's each man or woman for him or -- er -- herself!
I grunt down the path with a bulging garbage bag.
A young female student offers to help. Doesn't she know
that I regularly struggle up and down the three flights
of our Baltimore walk-up apartment house?
A boy becomes an adult, becomes an elderly man.
Order me a drink -- make it a double. Boats against the current.
Christopher T. George
