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[title] => The Laundromat Downstairs is Open All the Time
[time] => 2003-02-25 22:20:00
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[bodytext] => All alone on a b**tard evening. He
tells me the story as he shakes that ass and pockets that change. Old Henry Parker used to pretend he was something else, until he realized he was, then went back into being nothing. The cook asks for another two minutes. The waiter says I'm sorry but my hands are too cold. Besides that he's got a blister on his tongue, and ten years from now he'll be dead like any other yesterday's sale on gram crackers and speed. He does it again, and this time the easy way in. A milk man in the background is picketing India, if you didn't notice, and a piano player is doing the same. Unlike Georgia, (the woman, not the united state) Ms. Jones is well prepared for her sister's untimely fame. He walks drunk and silent to his apartment which is garnished with pin-ups and encyclopedias; including pin-ups reading encyclopedias, and encyclopedias with pin-ups in them. The laundromat downstairs is open all the time. The coffee isn't free, but the loitering is, and this is irrelevant because he never goes there. Chico and the Harpo Marxists are present. They are setting up the stage. Soon they'll be playing us their songs, and making the world a better planet. The bafoon yelps water all around, on me! Just then the door opens twenty miles away revealing this week's secret prize, and the deli's lights are also eighty-sixed by fingers. Billboards keep trying to sell him, but nobody seems interested. They all want cigarettes and beer and statues of themselves in the garden. Placing his elbows on the bar (with his chin not too distant from the near-empty glass) it comes to a close like the first few days after getting a bad haircut. I ask for another, and light up again. It feels like it's my turn to tell a story. [comments] => 0 [counter] => 173 [topic] => 31 [informant] => Adam_Gaucher [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => StoryPoetry )
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