Coffee (or anti-coffee)

An intense, rhythmic, imagistic poem expressing a negative view of coffee

Coffee

Polystyrene stomach lining borders
molten jet that broils, licking acid
onto flimsy plastic dam. The cuckoo
never ticks too early for insomnia-
inducing oil greasing cogs that
creak between ears that fear the day. Tarry
sinking sand pulls deeper users’ fists that
spew out note and coin until pitch spirals
latch the offered limbs as anchor. Lactose
bodies hauled from sacch’rine wrist dissolve with
fervid grin and clutch at sand; they’re drowning
eager at the bottom of the cup.