Howard F. Stein’s most recent poem to appear here was “Winter’s Hand” (December 2018).

Coffee Cup
By Howard F. Stein

You, with your coffee cup
securely in your hand,
tell me that you keep
seeing me in the hallway
with a cup in my hand,
either empty or full, and
Didn’t I have anything
better to do with my time?
I decline to reply.