Corporate coffee has a new coffee, Veranda, and it sports a hummingbird logo. I though about ordering a cup but I’d recently seen a hummingbird fly through fire and a corporate hummingbird wasn’t going to cut it.<\/p>\n
A man reads the Bible<\/i> on a Kindle near me. How do I know? Look, I was a preacher’s kid. I know these things. He’s reading about Jonah. I won’t spoil it for him. Why spoil the greatest tale in literature? My favorite part was when the ship’s crew threw him overboard. No, I prefer when the whale vomits him on shore.<\/p>\n
I’m not trying to be a Jonah in this new life I am living. I think about that metaphor daily. There is a lot of the Jonah Syndrome going around these days.<\/p>\n
A massive truck gets stuck in the drive-thru. They’re looking up in the policy manual what to do. They may have to call a mobile welder.<\/p>\n
I was writing about Bob Dylan ten minutes ago. I was a drinking cold brew Yuban (left overnight in the car) and watching a green river while I recalled my relationship with Dylan. It’s long and involves some very special people to me, but that’s all over now baby blue.<\/p>\n
The cold brew here goes for $4.75.<\/p>\n
The staff appears frantic. Someone forgot to set a timer. The boss is giving one employee the devil stare.<\/p>\n
The sound of sameness is deafening.<\/p>\n
A fly lands on my threadbare corduroys. It nestles in the wail.<\/p>\n
A man from corporate shows up carrying a huge white binder. New policies no doubt, to fight growing income inequality.<\/p>\n
Bob, I am so happy you won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It pissed so many authors off.<\/p>\n
I’m wearing green Pumas from the Walt Frazier era. I’ve had them for 25 years.<\/p>\n
A tow truck just rolled up. A burly man got out. He’ll have to winch the truck out of the drive-thru. Metal will undoubtedly be sheared away.<\/p>\n
Newspapers for sale. No one’s bought one in months. They stopped switching them out. It’s all the same news anyway.<\/p>\n
They used to sell Bob Dylan CDs here. They no longer sell CDs.<\/p>\n
I’ve often wished I had a job writing liner notes for albums and CDs. That unique American literary genre is dead and never coming back. I hope someone writes my biography in the liner-note format. No one will write my biography although someone did tell me they wanted to. She is a big Dylan fan.<\/p>\n
Scraping metal sounds. They belong in a Neil Young Crazy Horse guitar solo.<\/p>\n
The truck was just extricated from the drive-thru. The drive-thru didn’t survive.<\/p>\n
My coffee shop novel just passed 15k words. It’s an experimental, Yuban cold brew novel. I’ll publish it as a zine and give it away for free in non-corporate coffee shops. Someone might read it there.<\/p>\n
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