You want a taste of what it is to live in a city, you go out when the
night settles, you roam the dirty streets on your bike, zigzaging
amongst the pretty people, you eat on a terrace of a cheap restaurant
surrounded by the noise of ten other crowded cheap restaurants, you
pick an irish pub because you heard there's an open mic night tonight,
you stick yourself in front of the stage with the plan to stay there
till the end but without consuming even one drink, people file up in a
joyful atmosphere.
There's the required drummer who smiles all along, the gangly white guy
with his unfitting shirt, the shy girl with a golden lace around her
dress, she sings her heart out and wrinkles appear on her forehead when
she closes her eyes, there's the easy going black-haired twins, two
pairs of lungs to make you swing, there's the popular couple which can't
watch the audience straight and focus on their song by staring at the
beams of the ceiling, there's the way too much drunk guy from which we
expect a catastrophe but in the end go out quite well to everyone's
surprise, there's the wannabe stars who get on stage with a band name
and tuxedos, and there's the boss, an older man, organizing the turns
and playing a versatile guitare to accompany many up to be artists,
cheers and beers for everyone, it seems easy to be there, so many
regulars, all singing for the final signature song, it is joy and claps,
loud bursts of laughters and jokes, it's heavily insouciant, you cross
many glances and affable faces, "we're all in this together" they seem
to say, and you feel you want to congratulate them all, then in the advanced night the show ends and you go out right
outside the archaically carved wooden door to breathe some fresh air and
lift your chin at the moon, smokers are there too, but no one to talk
to, one night's not enough, and that's how it must be, you're thinking
one hundred nights won't help either because you're not on that merry boat, the
experience was good, enjoyable, and probably you'll be there again some
other time, so where is the rupture, the disconnection, you were
perfectly fine in there, confident from start to end, but you even
prefer the dark corner of yourself, who wants to join?
Easy and foolish is ok but not for me.
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