THE CURE IN COFFEE by David Erdos

 

THE CURE IN COFFEE

 

 

 

Into my morning coffee each day I stir

A generous spoonful of honey. The aim

Is to help sweeten silence, as it, in turn,

 

Infiltrates. Each hour accuses the next

As I wait for work and vocation. And so,

I write, no doubt, as a cover for the gradual

 

Souring beneath taste.  I do not know

What will be, or even how to sustain

The new future, which in itself, has been

 

Powdered, boiling and stirred, far from 

Shape. So the honey helps. As bees steal,

I am reminded at once of their function, 

 

And so I work away, hived, and hounded

By the lack of both individual Queen 

And workplace. We must forge our own 

 

Kingdoms, of course, as the ones we have, 

Or had now lay squandered. We must rise again. 

True buzz happens when word and hope's wing 

 

Taint the ape.  All sacred creatures combine. 

So, let a new community create culture. 

Commonality amidst creatures who, in seeking 

 

New features bite and survive in rude health. 

And so, savour. Offend. Sustain. Re-imagine. 

Evolution is sugar to the salt of the stars:

 

Taste as spell. Now, in my afternoon coffee

I stir a little of the night stretched before me. 

Into its absence I will cast life's last signpost

 

And some of the purpose and no doubt, 

The presence, too, I once felt.        

Perhaps then I'll be one and then,

 

Altogether we will reclaim form

And flavour and fate's favour, too

Through dreams dealt. 

David Erdos August 26th 2020 

 

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David Erdos is an actor, writer, director with over 300 professional credits. He is a published poet, playwright, essayist and illustrator. He has lectured on all disciplines in theatre and film for leading performing arts colleges, schools and universities around the world. His books include EASY VERSES FOR DIFFICULT TIMES, THE SCAR ON THE CLOUD, OIL ON SILVER, NEWS FROM MARS, CHANGING PLACES WITH LIGHT (penniless press) and BYZANTIUM with the photographer Max Reeves. He is a contributing editor for The International Times and maker of documentaries all over the world. David’s work has been acclaimed by many leading figures including Harold Pinter, Heathcote Williams, Alan Moore, Andrew Kotting, Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair in whose recent book THE LAST LONDON, David features. He can be reached at David.erdos@sky.com.

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