salt and pepper
[milox]
Two young women sit on a bench in the morning sun, staring out across the untroubled Pacific Ocean all the way to Japan. A car slows as it drives by, and the women hear a distorted snippet of a country-western song—Lyle Lovett singing “you can beg for sunshine to pale the moon, but there ain’t a thing, my friend, what you can do.”
Two young women in Tokyo sit at a table by a window in a cowboy bar called Kyoryuchi. The bar is closing soon and outside the window the cars drive by in a blinding flare of halogen headlights. On the jukebox Lyle Lovett sings, “There ain’t a thing, my friend, what you can do when all your love is gone.”
And you can shield your eyes from the morning sun, and you can turn away from the glare of night-time traffic, but there ain’t a thing, my friend, what you can do when all your love is gone.
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