The piano plays and drinks
With a trumpet horn broken heart and bad liver
And after many staggered shots of Bushmills
A scarred and barley-malted voice croons
In the tobacco-air and sex-hazed jazz club floor
Scarlet lips press to scruff cheek
When Matilda waltzed four sheets to the wind
In an invitation to the blues
Now step right up for a buck and small change
As the jitterbug boy watched the one that got away
*This is a found poem inspired by the song titles from Tom Waits’s 1976 album Small Change.
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