High street bar
Craft ales on tap
Sparse Scandi style
Scruffy piss head at the bar
Expert on everything
Readers on the far wall
Checked shirts and intellectual specs
Books on tables
Steinbeck and Bukowski
The Beer is good
Hop heavy ipa
Rich Porter
Cloudy fruity sour brews
Each new customer appears lost
Study the menu
Looking around
Until another one enters
You don’t belong
Until the next stranger enters