two tiny tin cups of coffee

26th september 2018, 1435

(for natalia mallo)

Two tiny tin cups of coffee
a condensed milk pudding in a jar

on a table on a street corner

in the biggest city of south america

nothing of importance in our human story

here in this city

of 25 storey buildings

& 10 lane highways

where the traffic so often goes nowhere

here in this city 

they call the macro metropolis

this megalopolis of more than 30 million humans

that defies the imagination in its vastness.

you & me don’t amount to much, i guess,

with our two tin coffee cups on a street corner

except in the discounted inventory

that measures the beauty of little things

not thought about much, maybe,

taken for granted mostly, maybe,

not celebrated or paid attention to

But I think about it

I treasure this moment

This moment so crucial in the history of the world

As I treasure the love and the friendship
I see in your beautiful eyes