In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-

dome decree: Where Alph, the

sacred river, ran Through caverns

measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As, I count my hours

with the endless jars's

of poor man's coffee,

I hallucinated about

Coleridge's Xanadu.

May be it's just

one meal a day or

is the opium that

Keats snorted.

As I lay bare

in grim winter

afternoon,

I see around me

a wasteland,

but I am dreaming of

Khan's Xanadu.