She is a bartender at STANDing Room
in Long Island City
and her shrugging off of life
is more attractive than riches
and fame.
Eric brought me here
to do 5 minutes for 50 bucks,
and she pulled me into her world
for some unknown reason
as she is way too pretty for me.
After my set, he tucks me
under her wing for the night,
and the next morning
per her legs and sheets,
and I know it won't last so I enjoy.
Even though I am older than her
by ten sad, silly years,
she reminds me that
we are here
in this existence.
At midnight my time,
she quotes Shakespeare's Hamlet,
Act 4, Scene 5, Page 4,
mixes the soundtrack
with Mark Normand punchlines.
Eric is gone,
I have no real place to go,
and she can see that
so we meet said sheets that are the color and softness of peaches
and we tangle tongues and legs for a lesson in one-off love.