Coffee Shop Real Estate
by Spencer Sapienza
Lumpy Left Cushion eyes booths toothily
Shpilkes is stumped on a barstool
Reading Descartes requires a witness
Obscene Dissertation’s in need of a charge
a single origin destination
ideals thinner than cardboard sleeve
the Honorific Caffeinates dream of punch-card feudalism
no one buys the paintings on the wall
Spencer Sapienza is an an allegedly humorous writer from New Jersey. His mother loves him but often hates his work. If you’d like to encourage his behaviour, find Spencer on Twitter or YouTube.
This poem is the first of a series of three, all of which are, to varying extents, reflections of a tumultuous breakup Spencer went through at the beginning of 2017. Like the thoughts of a person who has been recently and spectacularly dumped, they range from silly and self-pitying to morbid and dynamic. Spencer has worked mostly in prose and screenwriting but there was something mercurial about being single for the first time in seven years that inspired him to try his hand at poetry. Enjoy.
