A BASKET CASE

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Coffee pot and filters
| August 21, 2023

A BASKET CASE

I’d like to expound on the coffee pot filter:

This paper device knocks my psyche off kilter.

I’m needing some coffee to pour in my cup

with a shot of caffeine to brighten me up,

but the brewing, alas, will not even start

till I conquer the filter that won’t come apart.

Pat D’Amico is a columnist with Northwest Prime Time, sometimes a Sharing Stories author, and sometimes a poet.

SHARING STORIES is a weekly column for and about the 50 plus crowd living in the Puget Sound region. Send your stories and photos to ariele@comcast.net. Tell local or personal stories; discuss concerns around aging and other issues; share solutions, good luck, and reasons to celebrate; poems are fine too. Pieces may be edited or excerpted. We reserve the right to select among pieces. Photos are always a plus and a one-sentence bio is requested (where you live, maybe age or career, retired status, etc.).

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