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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{me and jean harlow}
  william taylor jr.


I was about 21
she was somewhat
younger
and looked just like
Jean Harlow
we'd get drunk
every night
simply because there was
nothing else
to do
I don't think nobody
got drunk
like we
got drunk
but I guess every drunk
thinks that way
anyway there was never
anywhere to go
so we'd just drive around
until we'd end up in some lonely
neighborhood
or empty
park
somewhere the cops
wouldn't bother us
much
and we'd sit in the car
and drink and she'd
smoke stolen
cigarettes
but the best times was when
we'd get some broken down
room somewhere
I'd sit in bed
and watch her smoke
and walk naked
around the tiny
room
laughing and cursing
about something
or other
and I would just watch her
and write poems
inside my head
even now
I can't remember anything
ever being better
than that.