the bmovietltubelights never blink in this
place where only radio nostalgia accompanies
the tictac of billiards and the streets of the very cheap
are not far away the patron (a well-kept secret) the
most recent incarnation of the buddha the regulars
outspoken a maul banded pit-bull curled into itself
sleeping on a chair
this is were the dogs of the street come in they
who take their meals in diners without waiters
in their eyes fjords & night islands & cold cities
seated at dirty hardboard tables they drink and
solve world problems or play trictrac with the
seriousness of children only the players change
but not the game
Ruben van Luijk is a photographer, writer, historian & Satanism expert. He was born in Rotterdam, has been in Paris & is currently drifting ever farther east on the European continent.