The Set Up

Filthy sawdust

Greasy brass

Finger smears on every glass

Dusty tumblers standing stacked
Before a mirror badly cracked
Thin tin
Colored signs
Advertising beer and wines
Hung dirt crusted ;
Fly specked ;
Rusted

excerpt from
The Set Up
Joseph Moncure March
1928

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