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The Walrus
The Walrus
Michael Lista

The Bar in Hell

It doesn’t ever close.
You’d need a firehose
To clean the locals out,
And even then they’d just go on burning,

Reminiscing,
Kissing
The lip of their gin,
Still full of who they almost could have been.

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