now he washed all the road dirt from his face and from his neck and sat down at her table as she picked up his check and she took him home for reasons that she did not understand while him he had the answers but he did not show his hand cause him he knew the taste of this wine very well it all goes down so easy but the next day is hell morning man was i drunk she whispered in the shower while he lay there and smoked his way there through the final hour she felt wholly empty like she d felt it every time and he was feeling just the same except he was trying to make it rhyme time was of the essence so they both did their best to meet up in the kitchen feeling fully dressed she just had to go to work and he just had to go and she knew where and he knew how to blow it off and so they shot the breeze quite cavalier to the boiling of the pot and sang the instant coffee blues and never fired a shot him he hit the driveway with his feelings in a case and her she hit the stoplight and touched up her face so you tell them the difference between caring and not and that it s all done with mirrors lest they forgot i said it s all done with mirrors of which they have none to blend the instant coffee blues into the morning sun