They Drink Americanos

They drink Americanos
At the hotel bar
Looking sweet
Very sweet
Looking like girls
Who shouldn't be drinking

And they're not
They're not supposed
To be drinking

So they're drinking
Americanos

And the girl on the left
Has pretty red hair
And soft skin
And a nice smile
And she's lovely
She's just a lovely girl

And the girl on the right
Has determined eyes
And opportunistic fingertips
And optimistic eyebrows
And she's got a plan
She's got a solid plan

And they're both drinking
Americanos

And one just got broken up with
And one just got her nails done
And one just spent two hours on her outfit
And one just changed her own oil
And one just told the bartender
To meet her after his shift

One should quit drinking
She's had too much
And she's thinking too much
And drinking too much
And wanting too many things
And trying to find new ways
To say she's lonely

One's writing poems in her head
Trying to get them down on dinner napkins
Wrapping them up and shoving them
In her purse
Thinking later
She'll edit them into golden literature

One's playing with the ice cubes in her drink
Licking the watered down club soda
Off her new pink nails

Both of them are thinking
About work tomorrow

And they're both drinking Americanos

One will get off the bar
And hail a cab
And head home
To DVRed TV
And Rold Gold pretzels
And an unnecessarily large bed

And one will wait for the bartender
And invite him back to her place
With its soft lighting
And its overflowing bookcases
And a cupboard

With nothing in it
But Rold Gold pretzels

And sometimes one girl goes out
Feeling like she's two

A version of who she'd like to be
And the mistakes she'd like to make
And the men she'd like to meet
And the nails
And the napkin poems
And the naked hope

Covered up only
By a nice smile
And soft skin
And the word 'lovely'

And all she had to do
To get both those girls there
Was order a drink you drink
When you're not supposed to be drinking

So she orders Americanos
And she drinks Americanos
And she lets the girl next to her
Whisper invitations

And request
Another
Drink