Everything will get smaller the longer you stay

How old or new means something on the surface

Price means more something but everything will get smaller

the longer you stay

Booze and company nets make you forget the state

of the bedspread for awhile

You spend a lot of time in the big or small lobby

watching the others come and go and you

feel so down you suddenly think of Phil Niekro

and almost laugh out loud

In the bath of the hardest water in the world

You think it’s a good idea to organize the place

to put your mind at ease

and afterwards the tip for the maid goes for a MOD

Outside is nothing but legal tender trade and

Cars that whiz by in the midst which, if

You had your way, would be gorillas that got it over quickly.

- JB