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Feb 27
Bartender, bartender, tell me a tale
while you sell me a pint of whatever's on sale

-Traditional

Barflies stuck not in amber
but in soft varnish on pine,
steel pole legs scraping the planks:

men bluster in bleary candor
while women lay it on the line.
We at the bar give golden thanks

for this wet and flickering space,
tended by our good mistress
who heals most open wounds...

but not mine. With a tired grace
I slip outside, dissatisfied, listless
under the frozen starless dunes.
Evan Stephens
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Evan Stephens  44/M/DC
(44/M/DC)   
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