People Poems · PHOTO-0730

A Better Party - For Nicole

2025-12-18 · Plaza Rooftop, Coral Gables

Original typewritten page for A Better Party - For Nicole by Chris the Poet

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This party's alright...an open bar makes anything like this *at least* alright. There are some teen looking boys playing jazz, a spot to take pics, all the usual suspects (and even some guy with a typewriter who seems like he's trying his best). But it's just alright, you know...we're kind of half waiting for it to end because, well, what's a party without you? Without our beautiful friend? Alright, I guess..ebut really, if we had it our way, a couple of us would rather steal a couple of bottle from the minibar, take some hors d'oeuvres, pack tight in the car (not everyone.s.syou know who-=us!) and peel out into the night like teens who snuck out of the house, and we'd throw pebbles at your window or maybe just knock so you could let us in, and then we'd have a *real* party, love,, and pop ehampagne while jumping on your bed,, just to be loud and and that would beat this party because we lu