Cheap Champagne

Did we order champagne?
Why, when it always
Gives us headaches the
Next morning?

We did order champagne,
Cheap champagne, and
We drank it, together,
In flimsy glasses, there
On top of that dingy hotel.
The drinks were lousy
But the view was magnificent.

Did we really stay there all night?
There, in that threadbare booth,
Naugahyde splitting and
Showing its stuffing, there
In that ragged ballroom,
Which once burst with light
And sounds and soulful songs,
And witty conversation, but
That was years ago.

We did stay there all night,
In that sad, empty room, with
Its squeaking, groaning seats
And weary-eyed waiters,
Serving cheap champagne
In flimsy glasses,
Because the view was magnificent,
And because nothing else
Mattered in that moment.