Name: Tilting on Barstools
Duration: P00H01M09S
Description: When you love someone you shouldn't.

Tilting on Barstools

from Seaglass Strange by Red O'Hare

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When you love someone you shouldn't.

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It took a bottle of whiskey to stomach
where we never went.
It took some self-flagellation
but I did it in the end.

But I am holding your hand now
or you’re holding mine.
We are stumbling drunk
and I am lost in your eyes.

God knows she loves you
and God knows I’ll defer.
We’ve got from now to last call
cuz god knows you love her.

I am built for self-destruction
and I think you are the same.
We are tilting on barstools.
We are playing dangerous games.

But what you need most
is probably a friend.
Not some stupid girl
only mourning an end.

We hold hands like we’re drowning,
not like we’re in love.
The bartender sees it
and I see her just shrug.

So from now to last call
we’ll pretend all is fine.
I won’t pretend I’m yours
if you don’t pretend you’re mine.

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from Seaglass Strange, released June 7, 2019

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Red O'Hare Portland, Oregon

Red O'Hare is a Ashkenazi Jewish American poet from Oakland, California where she featured twice with Bay Area Generations. A product of Presbyterian missionaries from the Belgian Congo and Eastern European carny folk, Red has been performing poetry for 20 years. She works in a bakery and is compiling a list of people who want her dead. ... more