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Saturday, January 11, 2025

COFFEE BEANS & BEINGS / ODE TO THE COFFEE CUP & ITS SURROUNDINGS


With deep apologies to John Keats for cribbing two famous lines from the final stanza of his poem "Ode to a Grecian Urn."


"Coffee is truth, truth coffee, that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

These lines encapsulate a central theme of the poem, suggesting a silly, yet profound connection between (her) aesthetic beauty and the universal truth that coffee is also hot stuff, toots.  

The cup (of coffee) itself, as an eternal artifact, symbolizes the enduring nature of art (photography) and its ability to sip or slurp certain truths across time.

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