runs on empty all the time

(only on "empty")

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i met this very beautiful ******* the streets
she said....wanna go "out," boy?"

i gestured at the ground, the buildings, the sky,and said
"we are already out, aren't we?"

she said...."let's go back to my place....a hundred bucks for the whole night"

i said "do i look like the kind who needs you, or, for that matter
HAS a hundred bucks?

she scowled and screamed out..."you stupid ****, you!"
i was so hurt i just slid down to the sidewalk and started to cry.

she ran up, lifted me to my feet and apologized.
she said..."look at the ten dollar a throw girls...dying.!!

a hundred bucks a night...the guy gets drunk, does me once, passes out ---feels ashamed of himself ...gives me fifty dollars extra...and is gone!

"why?" was all i could say

"becase my husband left me with the kid, i need an extra three hundred a month to support us"....two or three nights a month!...two  or three lousy, stinking nights a month!"

i pulled out all of money and handed it to her, and said..."here,take it....i'll try to get more..........

it was about a buck fifty in change.

she didn't take it........

i stammered "do you want us to just get married?"

she slowly shook her head..."no" didn't have to be said...but the feelings were true

we stood looking at eachother for a very long time........
then.....all at once...we both sighed deeply, turned.....and were gone

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runs on empty all the time

(only on "empty")