Around me there was screaming from the blackjack tables.
From of joy or sorrow? I was not sure.
Bells and alarms from the slot machines were going off
the way emergency squads respond in large metropolitan areas.
In front of me Sheena Easton was singing Strut
It was her.
All five feet of her
Introduced by a hypeman
Yes, Sheena Easton has a hypeman
who also played the Kenny Rogers role
during We've Got Tonight
Yes, these things actually happened
Sheena Easton stood on a stage in the middle of a casino
two point three miles from my house
sang a medley of songs by Alexander Nevermind
And fit a few lines from The Glamorous Life in her set
My wife was busy playing the nickel slots
during U Got the Look
I moved closer to the stage when Sheena Easton
sang, Almost Over You
There was a tap on my arm
"Are you, Ed?"
a woman asked me
I recognized her as someone I may or may not have had a crush on
during a job I had in a bookstore many years ago.
"Yes." I said
"You worked at Long's. You're name starts with an M?"
I had not seen her since a funeral over a decade earlier
"Stacy."
"Oh, right. This is surreal," I said as fifty three year old Sheena Easton
belted out the high note as best as she could
which was not bad
considering she was singing on a Friday night at a casino on
the west side of Columbus, Ohio.
And Stacy I'm completely over you if I ever had you to be over to begin with
which I did not tell her as she left with a guy I'm guessing was her husband
since we were not introduced
My wife came back
having won ten dollars after starting with two on the penny slots,
while I laughed at Blue Jackets defenseman Nikita Nikitin getting into his first NHL fight on the projection screens over Sheena Easton's head as she sang Sugar Walls.
Ten years ago, none of this was possible
But now, anything is
in a venue without windows, just down the road from our home
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