He had come in the first night
we had opened
and even then
two and a half years ago
he was a bitch of
a man
with complaints
unfounded
and concerns
unworthy
and just two months ago
he forced me to lurch through
this eye pulling performance
where in his world
he has always paid
a dollar fifty for his
large coffee
when
the sign
which I made
printed
laminated
and then hung from
the ceiling
says two dollars
and today
he did the same thing
the same crap
and then after
when he’s told me
not asked to
put some tunes on
instead of just the classical

asks me if I'm in a shitty
mood
If I had lost my girlfriend.