This is getting tedious again.
Plates clash out the melody,
Narrating my life in the sounds of silver and ceramic and 'can I get you anything else?' rings aroung my ears.
We are too starched, too pretty.
I'm looking in the mirror and realizingf I'm smearing my already smeared makeup,
and wait for my boss to yell.
I'm staring at the woman across from me now,
She too, is too fluffed up, too primped
Gleaning bottled secrets from a cheap bottled beer.
The hours are lost on nobody.
A knife-like comment knocks the sweet smile off poor Kara's face.
Another $300 day.
Another eight hours wasted on nothing but $25 dollars in tips and 3 dollars an hour.
Time to go home.
Home,
When I lack the heart to live
Need for speed sits on the TV
And I lay on the couch,
Buzzed and resigned into sleep.
6 hours left of nothing to do.
But sit in the bottom of this hole...
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