Coffee.

To relax we sit together or more often than not alone, drinking a bitter tasting ground substance that we infuse in an “…almond milk latte darling”.

How we ever drank a filtered stewpot flat white and smoked Stuyvesant cigarettes still perplexes me.

So as the drug of the nation, one step behind the scourge of alcohol and its monsters, coffee remains central to the society that is addicted.

Add tea and the complexities for our literary musings waver.