{Bedford bar exercise & Snow White}

exercise: wander an area you do not know well. go in someplace you've never been, somewhere you can sit down and write. choose a fictional character and write about them as if they were in this place.

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a small piece of advice

Snow White orders Wild Turkey
neat. Captain Morgan
on the rocks, whiskey
in a pint glass. drags
another twenty
from her badly drawn bra
to stop the bartender’s bushy
left eyebrow
from twitching. bad reggae
on the jukebox, scuffed yellow
Mary Janes kicked
to the corner, she chews the icecubes
before they can water down
the vodka. apples, she mumbles, ever
since Eve, nothing but trouble. never
trust a man who falls in love with you sleeping.