At Grahame’s once-was pharmacy
coffee customers now sit at small tables,
discussing in the half dark
perennial problems of time and space,
boat people and global warming.
This place, empty for several years,
was once full of upright Grahame.
He dispensed medicines
with happy chat
for old and scared.
Now an enterprising barista
serving with no fuss
doses of organic juice
has wooed commuters inside
who were waiting for the bus.
Now, coffee is dispensed –
no script is needed – that’n
the cost being three not thirty bucks
distinguishes the cappuccino
from a cholesterol-lowering statin.
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