04-12-2019, 12:52 PM
Business Trip
Cigarette smoke would have kept me
in my hotel room, away from the bar.
No fifth beer, no slurred goodbye
for the waitress, who was the only one
I wasn't invisible to- her name tag, Sarah.
Second-hand smoke would have saved me
forty dollars; double bed for one body,
curled in the right shape to spoon the night.
Cigarette smoke would have kept me
in my hotel room, away from the bar.
No fifth beer, no slurred goodbye
for the waitress, who was the only one
I wasn't invisible to- her name tag, Sarah.
Second-hand smoke would have saved me
forty dollars; double bed for one body,
curled in the right shape to spoon the night.
Time is the best editor.