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the_seeping_hours
Bukowski the seeping hours are born,
when the ebb has fallen off of its stool
and the flow has slowed to a drool
and the smoke has long since ceased curling
it's become just a stagnant haze of blue
and the night's pace has drawn to a crawl, yet
surpassed by a palpable stickiness
and the conversations now are based
upon earlier assumptions and previously
drawn veins of conclusions
and the whiskey no longer shivers any bite
and the sex has been given or rejected
or renewed under false pretenses
of forgone innocent virtues
and the sleepy need only rest now
and the hours need not be called down
for it is another early/late shade
of a gass-lamp neon glow
as the hotel's vacancy signs
ignite their 'no'
and the inner white lights
finally surrender their thriving.


it's this lack in time now
to stumble on
suckered under another
shift of life
gone down.
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