Coffee Shop Girls

girls in coffee shops
strut around
like they’re the most
beautiful things that were
ever created on Earth

and the windows steam up with
glistening fog from the heat
and intensity
of the coffee and
people’s breath

while I watch from the
distance
knowing I’ll never be
beautiful enough
or enough
at all
to enter those
coffee shops
where girls
wear purple and blue sweaters
and short shorts
revealing their flawless
tanned legs

voices carry across the street
and people shout from
hotel windows
as I glance once more
At the girls in the coffee shops
with blue and purple sweaters
and tan, flawless legs

They are
Pefection
something I will
never achieve