Starbucks

• Why can't its cup sizes simply be small, medium, and large? Really, it creates awkward exchanges between millions of cashiers and coffee lovers everywhere. Was it really necissary?
• Is Starbucks the only chain resturant dedicated to coffee? It's the only one I know about. if they exist, what are the others doing wrong???
• Starbucks is taking over the world. Someone buys a drink, and as long as he stays in there Starbucks has control over the majority of his senses. The aroma, the dim lighting and snazzy décor, the delicious coffee, the soft rock elivator music! They've only missed the sense of touch... Then again, I've never sat in one of those chairs which they lure their victims into with free wi-fi...

Taylor the Latte Boy

Taylor the Latte Boy


Kristen Chenoweth


There's a boy who works at Starbucks

Who is very inspirational.
He is very inspirational because of many things.

I come in at 8:11, and he smiles and says, "How are you?"
When he smiles and says, "How are you?"
I could swear my heart grows wings!


So today at 8:11
I decided I should meet him
I decided I should meet him
In a proper formal way.

So today at 8:11 when he smiled and said "How are you?"
I said "Fine, and my name's Kristin"
And he softly answered, "Hey."
And I said "My name is Kristen, and thank you for the extra foam…"


And he said his name was Taylor,
Which provides the inspiration for this poem:


Taylor the latte boy,
Bring me java, bring me joy!
Oh Taylor the latte boy,
I love him, I love him, I love him…


So I'd like to get my nerve up
To recite my poem musical.
He would like the fact it's musical
Because he plays guitar.

So today at 8:11, Taylor told me he was playing
In a band down in the village in the basement of a bar.


And he smoothly flipped the lever to prepare my double latte,
But for me he made it triple! And he didn't think I knew
But I saw him flip the lever, and for me he made it triple,
And I knew that triple latte meant that Taylor loved me too!

I said, "What time are you playing? And thank you for the extra skim…"
He said, "Keep the $3.55," because this triple latte was on him.

Taylor the latte boy,
Bring me java, bring me joy!
Oh Taylor the latte boy,
I love him, I love him, I love him…

I used to be the kind of girl who'd run when love rushed toward her.
But finally a voice whispered "Love can be yours, if you step up to the counter, and order."


Taylor, the latte boy
Bring me java, bring me joy
Oh Taylor the latte boy
I love him, I love him, I love him.


So many years my heart has waited,
Who'd have thought that love could be so caffeinated?
Taylor, the latte boy,
I love him, I love him, I love him.
I love him, I love him, I love him.