Mecca Lounge Sestina

 

From sunlight into black

A crowded grungy bar

You order up a brew

Your normal, ice cold Bud

A decent union beer

Because you are no bum

 

Beside you, sits a bum

His hands are filthy black

He also drinks a beer

All welcome in this bar

He asks you for a Bud

You don't deny him brew

 

But you seek stronger brew

To shock poor dirty bum

More potent than a Bud

There's bock; rich, thick and black

On tap behind the bar

You both enjoy the beer

 

A friendship is not beer

Though now you've shared a brew

You know outside the bar

You're suit and he is bum

By now, the sky is black

Go back to drinking Bud

 

There's nothing wrong with Bud

But eat, don't just drink beer

The chili beans burned black

And wash them down with brew

Who has become the bum?

A weekend in the bar

 

Why can't you leave the bar?

Abandon all the Bud?

Go out with neighbor bum?

Attraction is not beer

Attention not the brew

But lust, hot beauty black

 

Though bar is good for beer

And Bud is tasty brew

Your heart is bum and black

 

 

by Garrett Quentin Smith
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