The coffee shop’s packed with laptops and sketchbooks. A sculptor argues loudly about grants. Outside, tourists take selfies. We work here because rent’s cheaper off-season and nobody asks what you do for “real money.” O’Neill drank at this bar. Millay wrote upstairs. We’re trying to finish before the check comes.

Scott Burau is a writer and artist living between Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Key West, Florida. He attended a small Quaker college outside Philadelphia and grew up in Oklahoma. His work is forthcoming in Full Mood and fourteen poems.