A Coffee Mug By Any Other Shape

There might not be a demitasse in space

But thanks to Don Pettit now there is this:

A coffee mug that surely will replace

The sack and straw in orbit. Naught's amiss:

It holds the liquid e'en in zero gee

By virtue of its shape, which does exploit

A weird and wondrous liquid property -

That's surface tension. What a mad, adroit,

Solution to a problem ere its time.

Someday, might dwellers in a habitat

Regard these things as normal, not sublime

And weird new artifacts, for tea and chat?

I kind of think I'd like one of my own

Though space is somewhere I'll not get to roam.