The groups of men 

Smoking outside 

The coffee shop 

Gold cigarette ends 

Leave a trail

Stained ash trays

Red chairs

Sugar packets soaked

Drowning 

In ignored

Last gulps

Abandoned

Wonky tables

Damp

At an angle

Toastie packets

Cheese tangled

Ham, cold

Rejected & recycled

By the birds

But the cigarette butts 

Are digesting

In the poor birds’ guts