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Mid July, 3AM
- Flashing neon lights highlight the broken sign
- Outside 'The Silver Coin' in mid July,
- The waitress pours another shot of coffee for the three inside,
- But questioning deep inside why she's still here at 3AM.
- But in this twilight glow, she knows she can't quit,
- Can't afford to lose this shit just to luck some ticket
- To some shit kicking job, still fucking be under a critic.
- The coffee spills, and she says a quick 'Sorry',
- But the drunkard stands up swaying as if playing a zombie,
- Says ‘Honey’ with a lecherous grin, though owns no money,
- And she steps away, no deference shown, no company,
- Just a temperance disguising disgust and an 'I don't give a fuck',
- Just a Saturday in mid July, at 3AM, lust,
- 'The Silver Coin', and a waitress pouring shots for the three inside.
- Ringing sirens still living in his head,
- And the red spreading from the still warm body
- Made him want to see nobody.
- That why he escaped here, 'The Silver Coin',
- A quiet establishment, a different wealth,
- A cup of black coffee, drops of tincture, keeps his mental health well,
- A bitter mixture squeezed from life itself,
- Rather a pathetic waiter than a paramedic:
- Trauma, melodrama wishes to be past relics to break karma,
- A silent witness to life's vitality,
- Would gladly trade away a medic's vanity
- To make a living here with no 24/7 bloody shit.
- Just another Saturday in mid July at 3AM,
- 'The Silver Coin', and a paramedic visualising life.
- The nightclub's bass still thumping in his ears,
- Cheap alcohol under his breath be numbing emotion,
- Suppressing the tears, he just wanna disappear,
- Only the notion of fear keeps him frozen in routine,
- Life and death pulling at depression, say 'fuck this notion', this regime,
- And he knows he ought to have fought back like Wolverine,
- Should have stopped this, would have done that, could have intervened
- (Now do you regret this, do you regret that) between yesterday's fiend,
- Waitress spills coffee, and he don't know why but he stands up,
- 'Fuck her', but she steps back, imagination going right back
- Like everything was a mirage, lust gone with the dopamine and wine,
- Left him alone with closed projects, a path to decline,
- Just another Saturday in mid July at 3AM,
- 'The Silver Coin', and a drunkard too far gone from himself.
- Faint light breaks the horizon, over 4AM, premature,
- Neon lights, indistinct like unsure whether it's tomorrow,
- Outside, in mid July, a state of the art sorrow,
- No cars as the drunkard departs into the cold,
- Slumping 'gainst the wall, hoping his counterpart'd lift him home,
- Mind's shackles still clamping an empty heart, left only battle scars,
- The paramedic pays his bills, entrusts this night to time to forget,
- But can no longer fight 'gainst his memories, his own silhouette,
- As the cold saps his energy, futilely tryna find a remedy,
- And the waitress wipes the counter inside 'The Silver Coin',
- See them leave, with unchecked bills around her a drunkard archetype,
- But too tired to ask the required question, she risks being fired.
- Just another Saturday in mid July at 4AM anyways,
- 'The Silver Coin', and the cold sips the last coffee of the day.
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