The landline rings above the bar and it rattles every glass. The sheriff tips his hat and winks at the waitress walking past. She keeps a handgun strapped onto her hip and her memories in her coat. She leaves her wedding ring on the bathroom sink and a fish bone in her throat. She serves the witch doctors, the breadwinners, and the lonely hearted innkeeper.
With his coffee grounds he makes his rounds from the bedrooms to the docks. Where the water floods the road at night and the neighbors never knock. They bust right in, fill their cups, light the candles, leave the tv on. And when they go they’re drunk and honest. But just like mama wrote you can never trust a motor boat to get you from one place to the next. They died that night in a crashing tide that put the captain to the test.
The sheriff played the bugle horn at the funeral parade. He charged the innkeeper with murder feet from where the bodies laid. And his trial was short as the kangaroo court gave him 50 years to life. The waitress felt like dying but just bottled up her strife. She drank it down, put her best dress on, tapped against the sheriff’s door. He was beat but always wanted more.
And while he slept the waitress crept into the jailhouse with the key. And locking eyes with the innkeeper, she set her lover free. When the coast was clear, they busted out past the bad food and the cheap hotel. They sailed away at the break of day, awww neither looking back. She said, “for all the love we may have left, let’s forget about the past.”
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