Old 45s
After she’s made dinner
after they drink and fight
have sex and watch
the television
after he goes to bed
she stays up and drinks
tequila and dances
alone to old 45s
Dusty Springfield
Patsy Cline
The Shangri-las
and for a few hours
she forgets about
the debt
and the doubt
the things he said
the things she said
and where it’s all
surely headed
she gets lost
in old songs
and for a while lives
in the music that sings
of other times
when the world
was different
when she said
pretty things
to pretty people
and tomorrow wasn’t
always something to dread
she has to be at work
in 5 hours and she
says just one more
shot and turns
the record
over.
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