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POETRY [ ? ] :: Cadillac Market by Marie Kazalia :: 1:30 a.m. half hour before closing time can’t decide if that’s a woman dressed as a man or a man dressed as a woman big -- tall in tight red vinyl pants hooker but what she did with women or with men the question on my mind watching he/she fidgeting hyper drugged high buying 8 candy bars throws down a wadded twenty all kinds of pins & do-dads in her afro frizz bun holds a rolled X-rated magazine page exposed woman’s face mouth open in a suggestive moan This taking much longer than expected waiting on her to decide to buy chips for an additional quarter or a cinnamon roll I’m wearing slippers pajamas a long black velvet coat I finally pay for my 2 liter Coke go back to the hotel 2 doors down up to my room on the 2nd floor put the Coke in the fridge prepare for another long night   [ ? ]