Max Reif - Cafe' Trieste

<i> Cafe' Trieste, North Beach, San Francisco, was a birthing site of much 'beat poetry', and remains a gathering place for artists.</i>

Cafe' Trieste, SF,
magnetic north for a poet,
every place is south from here.

Ferlinghetti stares at me
from his picture on the wall.

Funny I feel this way,
it's not <i>my</i> myth.
at least I didn't think it was.

No where to go from here,
not the cover of AMERICAN POET,
not even the title 'poet laureate'—

a $2 cup of black coffee's the ticket,
the funky jazz and the buzz of voices,
who even cares what they're saying,

<i>I'm here.</i>

Max Reif

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cafe-trieste/