All the People in the World Right Now
In the bar,
the dark-haired girl
with large brimmed white hat yells,
Girl, I’m not drunk
and falls off her chair.
The men in polo shirts
with eerily similar manscaped beards
pass a phone around each looking at a pic
where one shouts,
I’m blacked out drunk here!
and orders tequila shots for the table.
A birthday boy with sash that reads,
I’m not gay
kisses his boyfriend.
The bartender states to a table
of cigar smoking dudes in loafers and Jimmy Buffet style shirts
Does this look like a place that makes Mojitos?
An old couple who have always loved one another
begin to slow dance to Sam Cooke.
A tour guide trying hard to pass himself off
as a vampire from the 1700s
looks bored and checks his Apple watch.
The uptown girl sways at the ATM yelling,
Let me have my money. Where is my money!
The blonde-haired couple
wearing the same white with black striped Adidas
try to go into the bathroom together
but there is no lock on the door.
A Frida Kahlo looking girl
in a bright colored summer skirt
pushes through the crowd shouting,
Sheila! Sheila!
Under the beer signs
the poet sips his drink
next to the glow of the jukebox
and says,
What’s next?
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