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In Kitty Liffey’s Bar and Grill, Last Round
(after Radiohead’s “How to Disappear Completely”)

Kate Falvey

The streets are ablaze with wind and mayhem,
something fishy and tidal looming toward the dawn.
At the edge of the pier, the glassy eyed barkeep
calls for final rounds. There is protest in the air.
A voice like muffled fireworks sputtering over dampened
dreams uncoils from the juke. Two girls do a muggy
shimmy by the door, fizzing noxious laughter. The newly
coupled coo and arch, preparing for immanent
disaster. Loners stall in groups, still courting time,
dodging the pent heavens, the skeletal lightning, the
eerie marrow of the riven night.
I am the only one here
who is not here
and though I am lowering
and elemental, and I know my way around
a coming storm, when I unspool from my
corner stool and float toward the open door,
the light foams from the mouth of the dark and
I haven’t a ghost
of a chance.

 

“In Kitty Liffey’s Bar and Grill, Last Round, after Radiohead’s ‘How to Disappear Completely.’” Umbrella, 8 (Winter 2008).
www.umbrellajournal.com/winter2008/pop/KateFalvey.html.
The Language of Little Girls. Cincinnati: David Robert Books (WordTech Communications), 2016. Print.
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