Paper Cup

from The Drone of Love by Kurt Chaboyer

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The iconic "We Are Happy to Serve You" NYC take-out coffee cup meant a lot to me when I lived in New York and discovered the city's generosity, momentum and resilience. I discovered one quiet night driving up 3rd Avenue that you could do 120 green lights in a row.

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Paper Cup


Late Sunday night,
few cars on the road,
leaving New York,
going slow.
I gave her the wheel.

“Why?”

For I’d done it before:
a hundred and twenty red
lights turning green, green, green.

“Who keeps score?”

Not I.

But I like how these words add up,
it’s just a paper cup,
I got a strange lonely reason
for how it speaks to me.
And when this is through,
I’ll serve you too:
We Are Happy to Serve You.

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The bells on the door
alert the loving virgin,
but this moment is hosted by Mariah,
the living daughter of a
nurse and a surgeon.
So shake out your dollars,
shake the glass from your collar,
for the voluptuopposite of
his ultimate breath,
the light between the guy we both knew
and death.


It’s just a paper cup,
I like how these words add up:
We Are Happy to Serve You.

-

Waves in the night
kiss against the shore, sing for
every bridge suspended
a couple lives upended,
for shed no tear does a big idea.
So I beg and I steal.

“Why?”

For I’ve done it before:
a hundred and twenty red
lights turning green, green, green.

“Who keeps score?”

Not I.

We are happy to serve you.

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from The Drone of Love, released January 22, 2017
Music and words by Kurt Chaboyer, baritone guitar by Ed Tapceanu, bass and keyboards by Tom Mennier, drums by Bucky Wheaton, arranged by Tom Mennier, with back vocals by Emma Franck, Dorianne Lanoix and Joelle Lanoix. Recorded and mixed by Tom Mennier, Montreal 2015.

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Montrealer Kurt Chaboyer came from Vancouver via NYC for good times and to make music.

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