poemranker ::Just Before My Shift Ends at The Uptowner by jessicazee

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Just Before My Shift Ends at The Uptowner

Member since 2002 · Posted 9 Oct 2005 · 3 comments

The beer I spill bubbles like hydrogen peroxide on the dirty wooden bar. See that? That beer I spilled? That’s alcohol abuse. I won’t charge you for that. If you spill a cocked dice again you will buy the bar. It’s all in the wrist, okay! Fives Still alive, we both have a horse. I have four fours all day. Ooh, too bad, you pay. Two songs into Carol King’s Tapestry and someone plays the jukebox. I slip the hundreds and fifties under the coin drawer, Take a shot of Jameson to punch out, Your turn, I’ll get you ice, do dishes, leave you a line.

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[9] Dovina 10-Oct-05/5:14 AM Reply
I laughed and and sympathized. Bar talk is almost spiritual at times, almost like church.
[9] INTRANSIT 10-Oct-05/6:46 AM Reply
If I only knw gambling jargon.....
[9] INTRANSIT › INTRANSIT 10-Oct-05/6:47 AM Reply
whoda thunk just friendly needling could make a poem, ha!