Sasseville, Jollie

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Jollie Sasseville To My Friend Waiting Tables At The Quicksilver Club Your smile fills your pockets with quarters and drunk men's numbers scrawled on dollar bills. You may win this waiting game but what is your prize? Here's a tip: Good things come to those who wait, but you could never wait. You planted impatiens and never stayed to watch them grow. That garden's gone wild now. (The whiskey 'n water in the corner just whistled for another round. You're there before he can say Jack Daniels.) You could be in law school now, or covering distant skirmishes for the AP or UPI, editing your dissertation on third world economic policies. But now you study human nature at the bar and bank on your findings. You found fast money, you wind fast men around your fingers 'til they snap. 102 To My Friend Waiting Tables At The Quicksilver Club You never could stand being told what to do: "Question authority" was always your credo. Now you're on your feet all night, taking orders from men who would tell you their woes before they'd tell their wives. You'd never settle for any battle hard-won, long-fought, any plan slow-cooked. You planned to write a novel; now you write names of unfamiliar drinks on cocktail napkins and fill your pockets from your smile. You always have had a quick smile. 103 

To My Friend Waiting Tables At The Quicksilver Club

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To My Friend Waiting Tables At The Quicksilver Club

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