When the coffee in the cup grows cold
it sits on the counter at the diner
in its porcelain vessel
growing colder by the moment
losing its "coffeeness"
Then, the waitress comes by
like a thief in the night
and pours a sloppy yet deft
layer
to it
And it doesn't happen like icing on a cake
nor like sediment from the times of dinosaurs
each one on the next
all lined up
in a colorful display in a canyon
no, it's something more like a Venn Diagram
what happens
when the cold coffee
mixes with the hot
and then it is
all warm.
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