These Six Empty Stools Are My Friends

Ekphrastic Poem based on Edward Hopper's Noghthawks

These Six Empty Stools Are My Friends
After Edward Hopper, Nighthawks (United States, 1942)

"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."*
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Who cares
near midnight’s scorn?
Nurse your dark brew till dawn’s
gloaming caesura, an
odd man out ’neath
dire light.


Image Source: www.https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628/nighthawks

* Huxley, Aldous. 1932. Brave New World. United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus.