Sipping Blackberry Tea

A prose poem circa 1989

Photo by Drew Taylor on Unsplash

Sitting on a dusty couch
Dog hair clinging to black shirt
Sipping Blackberry tea
Out of cracked “It’s a Dog
Eats Dog World” coffee mug.

A book on my lap trying
To be read by me,
Mind wandering, tired
Of contemplating Marcuse’s
“One Dimensional Man.”