Fatal Follies of a Former Scumbag

She taps her High Life
with her navy blue nails
along to a Broken Social Scene 
song on the outdated juke. 

Hours ago, she blew me
in the bathroom of a bookstore,
as if it were any other
night in Brooklyn.

Ten years prior,
I would've pulled an irish exit,
but now I have too much respect
for the wicked. 

I make the same mistakes,
but don't have the excuse of booze,
so I just fall in love for the night,
and write her a poem in the morning.