the
bartender says
he could tell this guy
hadn't been laid
in a couple of years
from looking at him
and talking to him
and you know it's true
bartenders develop
some amazing skills
all that personal
drunken haze of
victory and defeat
among the beer fumes
they move through sober
for most of the night
and you know before we
had all these psychics
and their dollars a
minute phone lines
we had bartenders
to help us separate
our futures from
our pasts our bucks
from our billfolds
and our minds from
the poison of reality
and I wonder what
I look like to
an expert
these days
I hope I have that
fucked look like
I always did
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