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# The Night Café
- URL: https://www.yacubdavidsmith.com/the-night-cafe/
- Published: 2026-09-26T06:24:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-26T07:04:37.000Z
- Author: yacub david smith
- Tags: Poetry, Just Like Cambridge

Without wealth, I drift in  
the corner, dark-lit, to repose  
the waiter and other strangers,  
in polished black shoes and laces, old —  
look away to far off places  
lost beyond the skyline, I  
drop the cell phone on the table  
and raise a glass but not too high  
I take my pen to write  
some words to reach out to you  
the waiter cuts a glance  
the time to pay is due  
all the coins lie scattered out  
the streets outside are dead  
the symphony long over  
the strangers now in beds  
in the Paris winter nights.