Green Peas at Stake

Watch Where You're Going! (April 5 - Dew Drop 5)

Watch Where You’re Going

“Watch where you’re going!”
Don’t spill the brew
with a dark espresso gurgle,
swirling like a black hole.
How quickly we forgot the warning!

We darted, climbed,
plunged, as years whirled--
the same, anew--into
caffeine-filled avenues,
and we despaired
the same oracular S.O.S.
“Watch where you’re going!”
on slippery roads
in solitary nights with
stinging thorns.

Two little girls in
dark rooms, we bounced
on coiled mattresses
like coffee jiggling in a cup.
“Watch where you are going!”
Who’d know someday
we’d run into doors
we could not open?