Mule

It was 1980, and I was still new in town.
But she was my friend, and my bartender,
And she gave me free drinks.

"You can do this," she said,
and I shook my head and said, "No,
I don't think that I can,"
and she said, "Just put the money in your
pocket, call a cab, and go there. You get
the bags, and come back. Easy."

She was smiling after the word "easy."

And so began my career as a mule,
except for the traffic accident that
cab was involved in on the way back.

Easy.



December 22, 2008.

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