The men are served hot chocolate 

In a wide cup without a handle

 

They are offered a variety of baked goods

Inevitably choosing the chocolate chip cookie

 

The servers are thin, traditionally attractive 

Female college students

 

Evoking feelings of melancholia and desire 

while the gentleman at the register demands 15 dollars

 

Their shock at this price is so intermingled with their loneliness

That a strong feeling of vertigo overcomes them

 

They will happily separate themselves from their dollars 

To extricate themselves from their emotional stupors

 

After a week of digital solitude

They’ll return the following Thursday