Abora

edmund fitzgerald, tom petty, and elwood walk into a bar

10/29/17 1:39AM

“Colder than Ice” -Pond, 2017

 

I go to the worst bars

With the worst music

The shit that I listen to

With the worst drinks

Overpriced to high hell

More for them and less for me

It\'s ugly here

Bare bones

A shadow of what it used to be

 

This is the town\'s bar

Below the canal

That stinking river of filmy shit

Black as night

Colder than ice



It\'s a freakshow any day of the week

But on this eve’s eve of masks

This place has none

It is, what it is

 

It\'s a waiting room

There\'s no highlights magazine but it feels the same

We\'re all looking for bad news

Enough to get us out of these chairs

Inhale some burritos instead of the air

It feels like it should have smoke in it

 

This bar does not belong to anyone

It\'s a free building

Anyone can come in

Jump stone gates past cemented stairs

Maybe that\'s why there\'s no one here

 

Except the wilting

The leather bound Hawaiians

The shameless thieves

The middling artists

The drunken pizza tossers

The wayfairing brothers

 

These shitty bars

With amateur professionals

Wrestling on screens

Fighting for available space

It\'s not my bar

Or yours

No owners, gods, kings or studs

 

Just a laid back atmosphere

A place to puke

And see the devil\'s side