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Waiting In Brooklyn

by Simon Widdop

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Balancing my brains with bourbon in some back-ally Brooklyn bar
nighthawks that had lost hope looking for the diner, perched in a meticulous row like tin ducks on a crooked shooting gallery on Coney Island

The fella to my right was coyly flirting with a glass of miller draft, his hands embraced around but not to tight, so that it didn’t slip through his fingersas the love of a good woman once ...

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Wednesday 7th December 2016 12:10 pm

americana   Beat Poem   Beatnic   Bukowski   Charles Bukowski   poem   poetry   Tom Waits

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