JAPANESE LIME TEA

After a bitter dream

better if you get something sweet,
but there is nothing to do if you just shift
and the storeroom is empty.

You just brought your tea collection,
a stewpot,
two chopsticks sets,
a tray
and a teapot.

Without sugar,
this Japanese lime tea in a plastic glass
is tasteless
when you believe that something is wrong.
It´s not the sugar
and it´s not the plastic glass;
it´s you.

And three months later
the same boring road that takes you home
becomes a nightmare,
and the Japanese lime tea
sometimes is sour,
at times it´s stale,
even sweet some days
and it´s the same fucking tea.

Jordi Boldú. Arguineguín, December 20, 2011.