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Looking At A Lone Woman In a Bar
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*based on a photo by Dianne Arbus

They are always so impenetrable.


A dead stare at the wall.


Her drink


some half-empty prop.


And the cigarrete...


Still holding a torch


but for what?


 


No--


my gaze will not be met.


And she will walk out the door.


And the clues


she will leave


a certain dead end.


And the cigarette will smolder


and the smoke


will follow its trail--


to nothingness.


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 Reviews of "Looking At A Lone Woman In a Bar"
Reviewed by Tami Ryan
Reviewed on June 14, 2004
THIS is excellent! Wonderful expression. Thank you.

Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on April 29, 2004
A real forlorn feel to this, follow to nothingness, what is nothing?


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