Fallen hair. The smell of daisies lingers
on dancing floors, feet-stomped mulch
waiting to be trashed with paper cups and bottles
she isn’t sitting under neon-sign suns
with friends, swept up in stranger’s company
who only in winter walks (home) notice
her absence. Absorbed in when he popped
his collar, smiled at her and came over,
an overpriced, summer martini in hand.
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