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A cup of coffee.. every day.. for 45 years..



you have made me

bitter

and angry

impatient

.. full of heavy metals..

drained calcium from my bones

unnaturally stimulated my heart

  beat

your oxypurines crystallize around my joints

  jabbing me with pain

making me rigid, inflexible.. both in mind and body



making it more difficult for me to concentrate after

  the initial high



and the decaffeination chemicals stink in the alternative



..



Your bright berries growing in the high mountain

sun..

I love you coffee trees

but may I switch to blackberry and blueberry

and elderberry teas.. not teas steeped in the leaves

  untimely ripped from their mother trees



but teas from berries.. given freely by the bush and vine