POET'S CORNER

By: "Felipe" Morgan

Three wise men

I sipped discount liquor

With Ray and Larry

on a seaside patio

at Charley’s Bar and Grill.

Not ten feet from where we sat

a hopeful looking younger man

unboxed a diamond ring.

It caught the sun’s last rays,

gleamed a brilliant  shine.

His woman shrieked in ecstasy.

Special, chosen, her face beamed.

“My life is now complete.”

Our smiles hid our inner thoughts.

Then Larry said,

“Happy hour is over”

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