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Inevity
July 1966 - August 1982
How you had found your way here, Courtesy of some bar in Denver,
circular green logo dully painted, proudly worn down.
Once whole, functional, despite the daily ash you took from so many smokers,
emptied morning lungs, too-familar biergarten scent.
despite baths and scaldings, tumbling drunken through another set of hands,
that couldn't keep you, then inevitable gravity, scrapes with the linoleum.
You would have set the whole town on fire.
Internal pressures, my father told me. From that moment you came out of the fire and cooled.
Inevity. The thicker the wall. All those beautiful edges.
Now Leather fingertips dart and pick, scoot away gathered curious felines,
once, caught light, chose a piece, decided an angle, moved on.
July 1966 - August 1982
How you had found your way here, Courtesy of some bar in Denver,
circular green logo dully painted, proudly worn down.
Once whole, functional, despite the daily ash you took from so many smokers,
emptied morning lungs, too-familar biergarten scent.
despite baths and scaldings, tumbling drunken through another set of hands,
that couldn't keep you, then inevitable gravity, scrapes with the linoleum.
You would have set the whole town on fire.
Internal pressures, my father told me. From that moment you came out of the fire and cooled.
Inevity. The thicker the wall. All those beautiful edges.
Now Leather fingertips dart and pick, scoot away gathered curious felines,
once, caught light, chose a piece, decided an angle, moved on.