A Fraction of the Conversations the Poet Remembers Having at Sin City Brewing
Sin City Brewing Company, The Shops at Planet Hollywood. Last visited on April 12, 2019
The Poet arrives to find the bartender has just opened the bar. She is friendly, yet wary. After a short convo, she admits that everything is not alright, that her ex works in the same building and that sometimes she runs into him.
Also the girl with whom he cheated, or at least the one she knows about, also works in the building and in fact how the bartender found this out is because one day the girl showed up. She drank a bunch of beers but otherwise minded her own business until it was time to leave. She refused to pay. Instead, she cussed the bartender out. She told the bartender to stop keeping the ex-boyfriend away from her. The sticking point is that our bartender still lives with her ex. They share a home together because neither can afford to live on their own. They’re not together romantically, but they live together. We try to avoid each other, she says.
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A couple stops at a border hotel on their way to Mexico. The woman puts cocaine in a capsule and shoves it up her ass. They drive across the border. She passes no gas until after she shits out the egg. They have hot sex on the beach while they’re coked up. A month later, they’re in Las Vegas, drinking at Sin City Brewing. They ask the Poet to describe a memorable trip. He says, I flew to Israel and drove to Palestine. I visited a brewery in Taybeh. Getting into Palestine was easy. The way out, it was hell.
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A female ironworker goes to work on the building of a massive brand-new casino. Once on site, she is shouted at/catcalled several times. She ties on and gets to work. She hears more shouting, this time from above. She turns in time to see a body fall past her. She turns sees the blur of the body as it falls. She peers over in time to watch its last moments in flight. When it it hits the ground, it’s so small she can barely make it out. The entire crew is shook. The site is closed indefinitely. She and a coworker find themselves at Sin City for a drink, describing what it’s like to watch a body fall that far down.
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Everyone agrees to order a round of beers and a shot of whiskey at the same time. At the same time, they drop the shots into their beers and drink the whole thing down.