I Don't Really Drink Beer

at a Parisian cafe

I sat at a table

outside on the street 

under an awning 

under the Parisian sky

the waiter enquired

and I ordered a beer 

just a beer 

"une bière s’il vous plaît"

an essential phrase for a Brit in Paris to know 

and when it came

I drank

slowly I drank

cold beer from a glass

...and it was wonderful!

now

looking back

all those years

I now understand 

I know what it was...

it was 10% the beer

but 90% the location!

...as I don't really drink beer!

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(Haiku)

Beer gets drunk; so much

so that the people drinking

it get drunk as well!