Big Ed's

Outside, cobblestone streets

and small doors and swine odors

Inside, wooden floors and old

ladies serving grits and coffee

Flags from the state of North

Carolina and the Confederates

Hanging from the walls, pictures

of a moonshine distillery

After a long night, Patrons bravely

keeping their food down

Raleigh, NC

1-11-2012

These Things I Miss

Jazz records playing on a vinyl record, pouring music into the second story of the coffeehouse. Irish coffee in the morning and stumbling onto cobblestone streets. Speaking poor German to Germans who always looked interested, never were demeaning, in what I was trying to say.

-- Raleigh, NC

1-11-2011