may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Wednesday, October 13, 2010

BARISTA 2010

age is not a consideration/though in Austin
noserings,tattoos and jeans are de facto uniforms
You will need to update your coffee languages
and,if a bar is attached-cocktails
It is assumed you are an artist/musician
and this is your day/night job
as well as driving taxis/pedicabs/selling flowers/delivering pizzas
and being a student on the side.You may be a writer
looking for Kerouac adventures
puzzled by those long down times when no one enters
You may be writing THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
in which a humble barista saves the world
You may be a cartoonist -someone who sees
their future in customer's faces.Or you may be just unemployed
and desperate for work/subjecting yourself to whatever the future holds
in order to survive in the world that values coffee more than art
and pays less in tips than you might think.
(the rest is for you to write -from your personal experience)

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