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Chanson
Senior Member

since 2000-08-19

Posts 1559
Up Creek w/Out Paddle

0 posted 2000-08-29 05:58 PM

Tending The Bar

Slumped,
     nursing a stale draft,
     warmed by sweaty palms
     holding tight onto
     my lifeline,

hopes and dreams
     swimming in the glass,
     reflecting the losses
     draining a face;

     colorless.

Lifting it
     to my lips,
     I quench my thirst
     with lost hopes,
     clench my teeth
     against the bitterness.

     Yet I crave more,
     just one more
     to torture myself.

I down the first dream
     that floats to my tongue
     then swallow shamelessly
     another two.

Summoning the barkeep
     with the crook of my finger,
     I slip a crumpled twenty
     clumsily into his breast pocket.

Avoiding his eyes
     I ask him to call me a cab
     (shifting nervously on the stool)
     and will he cover for me?

I'm done tending bar.

...chanson~

~"Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory..." P.B. Shelley~

Jon Mewett
Senior Member

since 2000-03-04

Posts 1304

1 posted 2000-08-30 05:11 AM

I like this....been there myself..a few times.....on reflection quite a few times.......nice.

Jon

Chanson
Senior Member

since 2000-08-19

Posts 1559
Up Creek w/Out Paddle

2 posted 2000-08-30 06:19 AM

I've gone back a few years with this one, to my early 20's.

Glad you can relate. Thank you.

...chanson~

~"Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory..." P.B. Shelley~

Broken_Winged_Angel
Senior Member

since 2000-04-06

Posts 994
Small Town, Somewhere

3 posted 2000-08-30 07:11 AM

hopes and dreams
     swimming in the glass,
     reflecting the losses
     draining a face;


This entire poem struck somewhere deep inside, but the above was the stanza that held my attention longest... Very well written.

With a little piece of tomorrow,
You'll have to kiss yesterday goodbye.
Because today won't last forever,
And the past will only make you cry.

Chanson
Senior Member

since 2000-08-19

Posts 1559
Up Creek w/Out Paddle

4 posted 2000-08-30 07:30 AM

I was bringing up an image from years ago.
I'm glad it touched you, BWAngel! Thank you

...chanson~

~"Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory..." P.B. Shelley~

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