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P a g e  6

D R E A M   O F   T H E   B A R   G I R L

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When Lorna arrived at the Greek Sauna

She was not Lorna but Cynthia

But thought it better to leave the name

At the Zurich Inn where she did

The go-go dance routine between

The strip number and the shower act

When her gratuitous partner for the hour

Squeezed her thighs beneath the table

And he gazed loose-jawed at the lather

Sliding down the slopes and valleys

Of the nude Bathing Beauty onstage.

 

She had left her friends at D’Legs Bar

After the bald Attorney made her Cashier

And almost saved her from the tyranny

Of the Bar Fine. Never mind that he

Never took off his thick lenses whe he

Took her out for the Short Time and he

Peered down at her like a dragonfly

Panting in his undemanding desire.

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But as these things go they were soon

Found out and the missus came standing

For her rights threatening to burn

The place down if the likes of her

Were not fired. And Cynthia found

The Zurich Inn more anonymous

It shadow certainly shadier in the corner

Where she took her magnaninous

Partners between acts. And looking 

At the other dancers she thought

She was better endowed.

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Still things change when Mother 

Wrote from back home in the province

In the South. The son you left she

Reminded her was about to enter 

Grade school. Don’t you think it was 

Time you sent a better amount?

 

Besides, we have to move

To the poblacion where it is safer

As these chases between 

The men uniform and those 

From the mountains were getting 

To be more than cat-and-mouse

 

(Our unmindful neighbor 

Vicente who couldn’t know 

Between Abraham Lincoln 

And the Sacred Heart

Had got his head lopped off

By the Tadtad.) 

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And here in the City things were not

Any better since ‘Mommy’ raised

The rooming rates at the Boarding House.

One must drink like a stevedore or starve

 

Because you take commission by the glass

Or you take on more guys to pay

The Bar Fine: You took fifty from the one-

Fifty so never miss a single night.

 

So you have to find me at the Greek Sauna

Ask for my name at the ticket booth

Remember it’s Lorna not Cynthia

And check your plastic chip honey

 

Confirm it with the Cubicle Attendant

And if we get along just fine

For a little more extra after the Body

Massage you can even Greek me sweetheart.

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