As the bartender prepares her a drink, he tells her how he’s a poet at heart and will publish a book of poems one day.

“Will you write one about me?” she asks, grinning.

He starts to recite something of Frost’s as though it’s his, drunk with his own lie.

Debbi Antebi (@debbisland) lives in Istanbul, Turkey, and blogs at debbiantebi.wordpress.com.