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In Devotion to Life's Sordid Affairs

Audio: In Devotion to Life's Sordid Affairs

from Graham Nunn, 18.04.09

In Devotion to Life's Sordid Affairs (audio by Graham Nunn & Sheish Money)

in every town there's a 'place'
and a girl who's sure to be there
in the lounge bar
laughing with some young executive
curling her hair and him
around her finger
 
me, I don't go out much anymore
but now and then on a Friday night
when the Cohen albums drag me down
then throw me up gasping for a drink
I pull on a coat and rush out
into the babble
 
and she's there wearing the same red dress
slow dancing by herself in the pool of neon
waiting for the good looking academic type
near the door to notice her
                                        and he will
 
he's watching her already
doesn't know she got a divorce last summer
and still isn't over it
that she likes Mexican
and sometimes takes a gay lover
'just to be different'
 
he'll learn soon enough
and spend the rest of his life forgetting
like me
rushing home to change the record
read some Kerouac and Ginsberg
and write this poem in devotion
to remembering life's sordid affairs

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