In Another Time
Disco balls reflect the strobe lights
That flash to the beat of the music
Fishnets encasing marble-white legs
Dance past you through the haze
Living life in frenzied
Three minute intervals
You breathe the air
Scented with beer-sweat-sex
And you can't drink enough
To wash the day away
To dull the disappointment
To drown the bitterness
Another three minutes gone
And you light another cigarette
Killing yourself slowly
One more time
Leaving blood-red lipstick stains
As the only mark of your passage
Through this seedy, shallow place
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