The seagulls fly overhead as the ladies put out their cigarettes in the ashtray. Sangria is cheap here, only two euros per glass. Most tables on the patio have two or three people talking eagerly to each other. At one table, a lady sits alone and picks out her fingernails.
There is a constant flow of people walking out of the door to the bar with full glasses in their hands. The hum of conversation is incessant, but any one conversation is incomprehensible, perhaps because it’s all in Portuguese, which I don’t understand anyway.
One man with a leg crossed over the other pulls a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket and fumbles with his fingers to pull one out. He puts it in his mouth, cups his hands around the end. ights it sucks in, blows a puff then pulls it out of his mouth with two fingers and proceeds to scroll on his phone with the cigarette in between his two fingers still.
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People stand up from their tables and go perhaps to dinner. Bro, perhaps to drink more elsewhere. Perhaps to their homes to make love a lady comes out of the door with two beers and sits down with the other lady who was picking her fingernails earlier.
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They clink their glasses together and each take a drink and then proceed to talk with their elbows on the table looking at each other
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music plays from inside the bar it is almost impossible to believe this will ever and
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impossible to think that the energy will dissipate and eventually be totally gone. But surely, as at the end of all nights, the umbrella will be drawn down. The chairs will be folded. The tables will be be carried inside and the patio will be empty
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all through the dark night. And all through the day. And so the sun is almost setting yet again. And the tables will be brought back out and the chairs will be unfolded. The umbrella will be extended and the first patrons will arrive to order their drinks. And then many more will come and yet again everyone will be talking and drinking everyone