Just Another Girl
I was sitting alone at the airport bar,
waiting for a connecting flight;
When she sat down on the stool beside me
as the day was turning into night.
I had a sense she was a beauty,
but didn’t want to be so rude as to turn and stare,
so I just played with the ice in my rum and coke
pretending like she wasn’t there.
I noticed heads were turning and looking our way,
and I heard them whisper, “Oh my God, it’s her!”
When I looked straight ahead I saw sunglasses and a hat
hiding a face in the bar mirror.
Then a young man asked her for an autograph;
She whispered to me, “Please make him go away”;
I turned to the boy saying, “Maybe some other time,
she’s having a pretty bad day.”
She turned toward me pulling down her shades;
stared for a minute or two at my face;
chuckled and said, “You don’t have a clue who I am;
You must be the only one in this place.”
“No ma’am, I don’t keep up on my current affairs;
I wouldn’t know one celebrity from another;
Even if you didn’t have those custom shades on,
I wouldn’t know you if you were the Queen Mother.”
“If you don’t throw touchdown passes
for my favorite football team;
or haven’t pitched a no hitter yet,
then you’re somebody I probably haven’t seen.
If you aren’t a sportscaster;
or the guy who makes the betting book,
then the odds are pretty heavy,
upon your face I’ve never ever looked.”
She said, “Now that’s refreshing,
Bartender, buy this man a drink.”
We sat talking to each other about nothing,
for about three hours I think.
Finally, she said, “I’ve got to leave,
It’s been real nice talking to you, Joe.”
She put back on all of her camouflage,
and quickly got up to go.
Then a young girl came up to me
and asked if I would autograph a picture;
She said, “I don’t know just who you are,
but you must be someone if you know her!”
I never found out just who she was;
in fact, I never even made a try;
For that one night in that airport bar,
she was just another girl with just another guy.
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