Blue Smoke

from VDSF Summer EP by Virginia Dare SF

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It was the blue smoke
from her cigarette
that fell around her face
like a veil no one wanted
a bride's mistake

It took all of her nerve just to repeat
bartender please serve me a drink
just one drink
and you can keep the change

In her tight skirt
and her high heels
that had seen better days
she turned to survey
the surrounding scene
to find a soft escape

Her courage came in fits too fast to think
how to make that man buy her a drink
just one drink
and she would feel no pain

Now it's two-thirty
and all her fairy dust
could not obliterate
the way the mirror
on the back bar
revealed her fate

She hasn't got the money for a cab
she'll panhandle so she can fill her flask
in light of things
it's all she'll ask

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from VDSF Summer EP, released April 1, 2020

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