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noir in a dirty glass


it’s the foggy gray between black&white that you fall into,
ejected from your Hollywood hustler nightmare. it’s
fast cars & fading stars, pistol fire in the quivering shadows,
& the smooth lies of indiscreet women. it’s the gunmetal
clutch of noir, & it will break your heart.

bottle after bottle, your glass stays full. tears fall in ten-cent
clef notes as a Doll with a forgotten name belts out the
saddest song on the jukebox.

moonlight creeps in as the door opens wide, & she walks
into the only joint you’ve never been thrown out of: the dame
with the invincible eyes & the long kiss goodnight. the arms
that held you tight enough to squeeze out all the hurt, & the
body where you breast-fed on your sweetest nights.

you hunch up your collar, trying to disappear, but she zeros in
on you like a soft, curvy torpedo. ‘I need a place to stay, baby.’
she breathes it like a church hymn, as if all the months of solo
drinking & pounding your fists on the table never happened.

you want to be hard & tell her to go to hell, then you notice the
mean bruise on her cheek, infiltrating her carefully applied
makeup. you’re bushwhacked by the spice of her perfume &
those deadly kissable lips, just an inch away, so you crumble
like a sparrow in a hurricane.

when you get home, she slips out of her languid clothes & into
your bed. & she sleeps, she just sleeps. you’re crazy with desire
to ravage her, make her pay for leaving you! but you can’t intrude
on this pristine portrait of her, this fairy tale. Sleeping Beauty.

so you sit & watch her through the hours
of this spectacular night;

satisfied, maybe, to be part of the perfect poem
for star-crossed lovers…



Written by JohnFeddeler
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