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The Jukebox And Outside There Is Rain

It has come to this again,
hiding from the world in quiet bars
on Tuesday afternoons.

The world holds together only
so long
until you have to
let it go

let it fall and break
into awkward little pieces
strewn about your feet

waiting to be
swept away.

Pink Floyd on the Jukebox
and outside there is rain

and you wonder how many times
this cycle can
repeat itself
In a single lifetime.

The bartender leans upon the bar and smiles
asking for nothing more
than you have to give

she is real
and true enough
and the glass she puts in front of you
still makes a kind of sense
when nothing else

does.


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