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Coffee Milk 
is not a fifty-fifty blend.
Something you knit 
like twiggy wiggy, or
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
It’s a Rhode Island thing. 
Runner-up for the State drink: 
Del's frozen lemonade.
It’s not that it’s delicious— 
it is: milk, coffee, sugar.
Nourish the morning, stay 
the sweet empty night.
Everything else succumbs.
No church wedding, 
nor Mazel Tov you can pass 
easily over.