Two dollars and you are awake until tomorrow.

The man at the window spoke three languages in one transaction. None of them to me.

Cortadito is Cuban espresso cut with steamed milk and a great deal of sugar that has been beaten into the first drops of coffee until it foams. It is not tea. It is what Miami serves instead of tea, which is to say: insistently.

I drank it standing on the sidewalk while a woman behind me explained to her granddaughter why the orange tree on the corner was hers.

Drink Cortadito (I caved again)

Place a ventanita on Calle Ocho

Cost $2