—You could steal green bottles—the room would smell stale again— Hide it somewhere under your dress—as it always did— Stale cigars and tired bodies—or even say When they reached to give you the tip, “Don’t give me a tip, Just give me”—unwashed men with their six-weeks’ beards, Trying to hold you back when—“that little green bottle, I want it so.”—but the lady would never do it. Ladies named Lucy. Lucy was a good name, Flower-smelling. Sophy was just a name.
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