Red velvet
_____blue haze
curtain raised --
_____stage veiled:
cloud of smoke.
_____A cough.
glass clinks.
_____"No sir, tell us
what you really think.
See folks, that's why we have
a two drink minimum:
because we care. It helps you cope
with dickheads like these.
_____"Everybody's a comedian."
A gouge
_____catches my
eye, betraying
the tabletop as
cheap particle board,
not pine.
The next act's
the best of the night.
The only two who laugh:
me and a bottle-blonde whore.
Her date's an off-duty cop.
They sit two tables to the right.
He has a crestfallen look,
as though he'd expected more.
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