Ode to Afternoon Coffee

Oh, afternoon coffee
You promise so much:
A moment of awakeness,
A possibility of productiveness,
A taste of morning,
when so much more
should have been done.
Afternoon coffee,
you are a wink of a blip of a spark of a high
followed by a long, low crash
and, sometimes, a sleepless night.
Afternoon coffee,
if only you came with an apple fritter,
I think we'd get along a lot better.