Happiness Forgets

[Keith]

Edit 1..... Leanne, SomeRandom

A loose-suited cool linen swagger
eclipses the burden of daylight
adjusting down well-staggered steps;
nicotine fingernails trail billboard walls
to an ugly door that opens with a mumble.

The bar stools gesture through half closed eyes
lifted from beer mat stares,
closing again with a head back sip.

Hips sway through pungent clouds,
reverb touches seersucker on stilettos,
heavy handed from a dub step base.

Familiar he falls to a corner seat and closes his mind;
behind the aroma of a Black Russian, he slips
under the underground again.


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A loose suited cool linen swagger
eclipses the burden of daylight
adjusting down well-trodden steps,
nicotine fingernails trail on billboard walls
to an ugly door that opens with a mumble.

The bar stools gesture through half closed eyes
lifted from beer mat stares,
closing again with a head back sip.

Hips sway through pungent clouds,
reverb touches seersucker on stilettos,
heavy handed from a dub step base.

He falls familiar to a corner seat and closes his mind,
behind the aroma of a Black Russian, he slips
under the underground again.