Narcissus In The Coffee Bar

Ginseng

glistening

shimmering

time

pondering

decaffeinated

Ceramic

Antiseptic

Aztec

smiles

piss stained

leather shoes,

Reviews

[barleygirl]

I wish I could write sparsely like this. As the old saying goes, it takes more time to write less & make it count, as you have done. You pick dynamic verbs & other word choices that convey a ton, so each idea paints a larger tapestry than one might expect (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[gram linski]

Margie, fondly hugs from me, great review, I think it is more difficult to actually write and sculpt something out with purpose and intention

[Edie Blue Starfish]

coffee shop scenes are complex. I like to sit and people watch sometimes.
imagine people's lives. narcissists, I feel sorry for them sometimes.
how lonely they must be, but then does a true narcissist have the capacity to feel loneliness and are they worthy of empathy?

[gram linski]

Just ask the reflection in your mirror, lol, I love a good people watch, and a wee listen in, sometimes the overheard words write their own poems, try it on the bus ,

[Edie Blue Starfish]

I ride a train into the city, to work every day.
I have often thought that if I carried a recording device I would have some great material

[gram linski]

you would also be intercepted by FBI, still must be a poem in there somewhere, lol

[Edie Blue Starfish]

well, yes. and that is why I have never work a wire tap while riding the train :)

[Chris Shaw]

Coffee shop sadness. He paid, he stays. Mind you I bet there were many looking and smelling those pissed stained shoes.

Chris

[gram linski]

Everyone's shoes were piss stained, there was a leak in the toilets, lol

[Chris Shaw]

:))...................

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I guess we scoff at Narcissus yet the tale is a sad one with many Echoes. Now what the f**k he is doing at Costa Coffee is anybodies guess and I think he was more prone to drinking Aztec pulque than a flat white. And as for the shoes who cleans shoes these days anyway?

[gram linski]

I don't think it was Costa, even Greek myths have taste, he was probably just staring into his mochfrappachino, thinking don't I recognise him, lol

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Aztec smiles and then the bum shows up to the coffee shop looking for a cup of warmth...and everyone flinches...and in most coffee shops the prices are ridiculous...even those not from the streets can't afford to buy....just look...
and they have regular shoes.
i like the scene painted here.
j.

[gram linski]

Thanks j, the Dutch for a coffee with milk translates as wrong coffee, dirty caffeine laden bike stealing b******s, what the f**k you mean by regular shoes, I had a left one and a right one, made sense to me, lol