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I guess any woman
can work as a stripper
in Irvington, NJ.

The Go-Go place
I stopped by for a drink
had only beer-bellied, middle-aged
Latinos in bikini.

And when I finished my
vodka tonic and stepped outside,
a crackhead white trash
in her fifties, I guess, offered
a blow-job for twenty bucks.

And a unisex salon
on the next block
was still open
at midnight.

I had a whole night ahead of me
supervising broken lives
of employees in the transit garage,
with my ex-wife among them.

4/2007
Forthcoming in No!Love by Aleksey Dayen (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2007)

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