coffee

coffee isn't just a drink. it's the feeling before the good thing starts. i don't have a word for it yet, but I know the feeling. someone says "coffee" and something in me — before I even think about it — just lifts. not in a caffeine-dependent way. in a pavlovian joy way. in the way that certain words carry whole worlds inside them: saturday. fireplace. rain. coffee is one of those words for me. the moment it enters a sentence, I'm already somewhere better. "it's not just th