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She takes a job

tending bar at a shot

and beer place where

old guys and dead beats

spend their pension

and social security checks.

Doesn’t know anything

about sports and could

care less. Doesn’t know

anything about tending

bar either but it will do

as a job until the next one

comes along. Wears a

Free Mumia t-shirt and

one of the dead beats

asked her what a Mumia

was? She fills him in.

He listens politely then

asks, “Who do you like

in the Super Bowl?”

The next day she wears

a Ramones t-shirt to work.

Still doesn’t know who’s

playing in the Super Bowl.

Alan Catlin

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