Initiative
Poetry: Real Time (Almost)

A bookshop with a cafe
A cafe with a kitchen
You to be front of house
Me to work behind the scenes
We will have many writers
With poems or novellas
Scripts or dissertations
Perhaps even a few short stories
We will forge a place for lovers
For new love and for old love
For all of those love stories
Which books are filled with
Was it 1987 or was it 1988
Does it in anyway matter today
Since over thirty years have…