We were in a bar
in Amsterdam;
it was noisy
with punters.
She sat on a bar stool
next to me.
What did you think
of Anne Frank's house?
Seemed ghostly,
I said,
as if all that tension
and anxiety had been
soaked into the walls.
She lit a cigarette
and inhaled.
I did likewise.
Someone must
have split on them.
Guess so,
I said.
Some one laughed loudly;
another spoke in Dutch.
Did you hear
what that ***** said
on the minibus?
What about?
I asked.
How she'd had this guy
in the back of a lorry
and he'd left the brakes off
and the lorry moved
along the side street
and hit a wall,
and they
were thrown apart?
No, never heard her;
I tend to ignore her
when she talks,
I said.
She's a ****
but I still have to
listen to her.
We sipped our beers
and smoked
our cigarettes.
You want to come
to my tent tonight
and such?
Sure,
I said,
let's.
Jun 16, 2019
Jun 16, 2019 at 2:43 AM UTC
We were in a bar
in Amsterdam;
it was noisy
with punters.
She sat on a bar stool
next to me.
What did you think
of Anne Frank's house?
Seemed ghostly,
I said,
as if all that tension
and anxiety had been
soaked into the walls.
She lit a cigarette
and inhaled.
I did likewise.
Someone must
have split on them.
Guess so,
I said.
Some one laughed loudly;
another spoke in Dutch.
Did you hear
what that ***** said
on the minibus?
What about?
I asked.
How she'd had this guy
in the back of a lorry
and he'd left the brakes off
and the lorry moved
along the side street
and hit a wall,
and they
were thrown apart?
No, never heard her;
I tend to ignore her
when she talks,
I said.
She's a ****
but I still have to
listen to her.
We sipped our beers
and smoked
our cigarettes.
You want to come
to my tent tonight
and such?
Sure,
I said,
let's.
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