MASLOWSKA DOROTA

FIRST SHE TOLD ME she had good news and bad news. Leaning across the bar. Which do I want first. The good news, I say. So she told me that in town it looks like there’s a Polish-Russki war under a white-and-red flag. I say, How do you know, she says she heard. So I say, Then I’ll take the bad. So she took out her lipstick and told me that Magda says it’s over between me and her. Then she winks at the Bartender like that if something happens, she wants him to come over. And that’s how I found out that she’d dumped me. Magda, that is. Even though we’d had it good, we’d had our share of nice times, a lot of nice words had been said, on my part as well as hers. For real. The Bartender says to me, Fuck it. Though it’s not so simple.