It took Roy a while to realize why he was sitting in a place that smelled like cheap perfume and Joe Cocker singing "You Can Leave Your Hat On." He realized that he was there on the day that his father died.
Saturday night, Roy was in a grungy strip club in Jersey. It was the same joint that his father took him to as a boy. He remembered how uncomfortable he felt watching naked women slide down a pole, and seeing his dad’s creepy grin as he slipped a five-dollar bill down a dancer’s g-string
It took Roy a while to realize why he was sitting in a place that smelled like cheap perfume and Joe Cocker singing "You Can Leave Your Hat On." He realized that he was there on the day that his father died.
Malcolm Marsh
7/2/2019 06:19:51 pm
Poetic justice or maybe deja vu Comments are closed.
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