Of course, there was a time you didn’t always get your way. Back there when my heart was not so easy to invade.”
Tori Amos
“Hey Gorgeous,
can I get your number?”
We’d been raising armies of wit
all evening,
shots of something citrus fired,
unruly curls deployed as a decoy.
“Got a pen?”
I uncapped it with barred teeth
and scribbled beneath
Paynes: better off here
than across the street,
the dive bar napkin reads
with cheeky courthouse avoidance instinct.
#1 was all I wrote, the next battle
cry in my throat.
Anchors away;
retreat isn’t always defeat.
The dancefloor’s where young girls
find their fleet.
Saw you years later,
cocktail lounge subdued.
Goatee, that was new.
You said, “Hey, I think I know you.
The chick who gave me the #1.”
“Like the middle finger.”
I laughed lifting mine,
a loaded gun. “Glad it stung.”
We give our cigarettes a flick,
toast to things that stick,
the calvary of age and
the tactics of our wild ways.
© khartless 2022, All Rights Reserved
Written for Flashback Friday #52 Wild Thing.
Photograph of Paynes Biker Bar
Yard Sale of Thoughts 
Wonderful vivid scene-setting that really paints a vibrant smoky downtown bar! ❤ Love the back-and-forth banter between them 😀
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Thank you. Yes, it’s hard to make this kind of ridiculousness up. But, it was fun to remember these silly things, and well, you know laugh at myself. Cheers.
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good 😊
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Many thanks. 😊
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😊
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Unruly curls employed as a decoy; the cunning ways of flirtatious woman revealed! 🤣
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Oh yes, I’m giving away lots of tricks in this one. 😉
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And I’m noting them all down! 😂
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😊
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Fabulous! It feels like a movie. Do movies ever feel like poetry? Maybe some.
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I don’t know, but this scene would be loads of fun. Thank you kindly, worms.
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An epic write, K. “We give our cigarettes a flick,
toast to things that stick,
the calvary of age and
the tactics of our wild ways.” Amazing story and writing.
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Thank you. I was searching all week for my wild ways and it hit me just today this story. Happy Friday! 💜🍷
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You’re welcome! Haha. We are all glad it hit you today. 😁 Happy Friday! 💜🍷
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This is like flash fiction poetry (is that a thing?). Great narrative and atmosphere. Love the sassy dialogue : ‘a loaded gun. “Glad it stung.”
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Why, yes I like that genre description. New tag just created. Thank you; I enjoy the give and that banter.
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