Grey

I went to

Dunkin Donuts

asked for a coffee

to go

laughed hysterically

when I realized

that’s all they do

I had called out sick

it was too grey

and the men making

conversation outside

seemed like

scientific specimens

the art of surviving

an academic subject

with a grade seemingly

just for participating

I watched them

as if through glass

my lukewarm coffee

in its styrofoam

waiting for its end