Katie Presley
Decaf

Only the truly self-destructive drink coffee. Or sodas or smoke cigarettes. This is the best way to rebel. Artists and students, of course, do all these because life is one big rebellion. (until of course one sees one's first picket fence and then soda is just sugar.) (and also cigarettes keep getting more and more expensive.) But coffee. Coffee is for those who really just want to fuck shit up. Starting the day in a subversive way don't let anyone tell you it's not a drug. Coffee causes riots and keeps writers writing and drivers driving and farmers farming. There is probably coffee in every painting you have ever seen.

Coffee, or else heroin. The freedom to pick a poison and paint a painting. stay in bed all day and choose another way to wreck things. while petting a cat. This is most likely to take place on a Saturday. Maybe a Thursday? But those are big days for coffee consumption. (self-destruction might be more potent under covers. especially if there's a mug.) Cats while petted have probably witnessed more self-destruction than any other creatures. So many people put so much thinking about hope and death and life alive into their early morning under covers brown drinking cups. Somewhere a truck grounds to a halt and a writer puts down her pen.