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A Poetic Tragedy: Hamilton’s Tavern

Jeffery Wiederkher
A collector of records, stories, sins, whisky and words. A hopeless romantic who daydreams too much and writes not enough.

If beer-stained, graffiti-ridden tables could talk …
Hamilton’s … essentially where Closer was born. The jukebox cranking “The Boys Are Back in Town,” taps flowing, stories flowing … bodies grinding.
As if to provide the perfect epilogue, as I was wrapping up the first draft of Closer, Hamilton’sTavern tragically burned down. Never to be rebuilt—jukebox up in flames, taps twisted, all of its unwritten stories buried somewhere beneath the rubble.