Talk

In smoke-filled all night cafés

Over bottomless cups of black coffee

And at back-tables of bars

Over amber, bubbling, beakers of beer

We would talk.

We talked about nature.

We talked about the truth of nature

And the nature of truth.

We talked about the beauty of nature

And the nature of beauty.

We talked about the beauty of truth

And the truth of beauty.

We talked about the goodness of nature

And the nature of goodness.

We talked about the goodness of beauty

And the beauty of goodness.

We talked about the goodness of truth

And the truth of goodness.