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Tonight's Poet Corner: Craic

Craic by Belinda Roddie This is the part of the story where I close my eyes and focus on the spots and the flickers of orange, like a personal bonfire held behind latex-thin eyelids. This is the part where I forget that last time I saw you, we were drinking beer and cider and listening to Irish music in a San Francisco bar, and there was a reading afterward - Irish, too, a drunk comedy, maybe a drama if we all sobered up soon. I always wondered, deep down, what you thought of me. If my bulky frame looked awkward in a man's jacket that was still too big for me, my morals stuffed in the pockets of my jeans, denim daydreams littered with clawing fingers of lint. I waited over an hour for you to show up. And when you did, the conversation felt as fluid as the taps behind us. The spigots added noise almost as natural as a waterfall on tape. It may have lulled us to sleep, were it not for the people talking around us, or the rough accents of the actors clinging

Today's OneWord: N/A

Bah! No OneWord update again! Booooo.