Intermezzo

Intermezzo (nightlife)

The café was empty
safe for an old whore
eating chicken & chips and
drinking a litre carafe of
house wine,
I had borrowed her
newspaper and since
I wasn’t a client
she didn’t embarrass
by trying to be sexy.

An extreme gay, black man
entered,
clowned about a bit,
asked me for a beer,
I gave him an imperial,
and he made silly walks
talked non stops,
became tiring,
the owner told
him to leave

The woman and I left
together, the owner
closed his café
for the night, I just
happen to turn around and
saw him letting in the gay
man again.

“They have been lovers,
on and off, for
years”, the woman said