[Not that inspired by today’s 11th Finding Everyday Inspiration https://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/writing-everyday-inspiration/ prompt , I recycle another item from my back catalogue of observational poem, this one from around 2010, based on a weird scene I observed in a coffee bar ]

Young Women in a Coffee Shop

 

She has her laptop set up in a coffee-shop

before her slender frame,

black eye make-up & attitude in her voice,

foot tapping in toe-twirling confidence

wound up

within her flip-flopped youthful yet complaining gait;

& something twinkling in her world-filled eyes.

*

The friend arrives in heels,

bust out, bum up,

her lip-stick smeared into a whinge

across the back-drop of her face,

emptiness in her eyes.

*

Smiles exchanged,

the pair unwrap a batch

of brand new medical equipment

like Christmas presents

& set excitedly about

taking each other’s blood pressure,

as they await decaf and tea.