Morning Coffee

Monday Morning Coffee

Eight am and it's

morning coffee

at down the bar.

Today I met

someone new.

Many, many years

separated us

but we found

much in common

talking about

San Francisco,

her seven year old son,

the latest iPhone troubles,

and my drinking days

thirty-five years past.

Back at home

I looked over

my Facebook stream

---wise words from

Teddy Roosevelt

and Buddha---

Political jokes

and pictures

of tigers and fawns.

Never to walk under

the same blue sky twice,

Each day,

a fresh life.

So long

as you have breath

to breathe

never too old

to learn

something new.

Dewey Dirks