Caffeine Powder: The Measured Teaspoon

Lyrics

[Intro]
Two hundred milligrams. A white disc. No ceremony.

[Verse 1]
Nobody invited this one to coffee hour.
No barista, no crema, no Sunday ritual.
Just a bottle from the drugstore,
the USP label, the lot number,
a pill you could weigh on a jeweler's scale
if you wanted.

[Verse 2]
The powder form is more honest —
the measured teaspoon, the exact milligram,
the molecule separated from its leaf.
No antioxidants. No polyphenols.
No story about Ethiopian goats.
Just the alkaloid, undressed.

[Chorus]
Caffeine powder: the drug without the drink.
A teaspoon, a scale, a swallow.
Adenosine still gets blocked.
The receptor does not care about romance.

[Bridge]
Pharmacists know this is a drug.
Everyone else pretends it isn't.
The pill is the honest version.
The coffee is the kind lie.

[Outro]
Measured. Weighed. Swallowed.
The brain cannot tell the difference.
It just knows: the signal stopped.