there's a blur drizzle the plateglass as a swizzle stick stirrin up the sultry night air and a yellow biscuit of a buttery cue ball rollin' across an obsidian sky as the go groanin' and wheezin', on the corner I'm freezin'; on a restless boulevard at a road I'm across town EASY STREET with the tight of moviegoers and out of towners on the and the buildings towering high lit like dominoes or black all the used car dressed up in Checkerboard slacks and Grant wrap-around, pacing in front of SCHLEIB $39.95 like at a shootin' gallery they throw out of a Texas Guinan routine "Hello sucker, we like your just as as anybody else's here" or they give you the P.T. bit "There's a sucker every minute you happened to be comin' along at the right time" come here now you know... all the harlequin sailors are on the in a of "LIKE NEW," "NEW PAINT," factory air and AM-FM dreams and the piss gypsy cabs stacked up in the taxi waitin' like machines to be off a joy ride to a magical place waitin' in like "truckers welcome" diners with lots full of Peterbilts, Kenworths, and the like, and hiballin' with bankrupt brakes, over driven under paid, over fed, a day late and a short but Christ I got my around a bottle and my foot on the throttle and I'm standin' on the standin' on the like a "just in town" jasper, on a corner with a gasper lookin ' for some kind of Cheshire grin stroking a goateed chin, and using parking as walking sticks on the inebriated with my eyelids propped open at half but you know... over at Pool Hall and Snooker it was a nickle two, yea it was a nickle after two and in the cobalt steel blue smoke, it was the that groaned out the hit parade and the squeaked, the floorboards creaked and an Olympia winked through a torn yellow shade, old Jack Chance leanin' up against a Wurlitzer and out a 5 ball combination shot you say? ...hard to believe?, perhaps out of the of possibility? naaaa he be stretchin' out tawny fingers out across a cool felt with a provocative golden gate and a full table railshot that's no and I leaned up my bannister and wandered over to the Wurlitzer and I punched A-2 I was for something like Wine, Wine, by the Night Caps starring Chuck E. or High Blood Pressure by George (cryin' in the streets) - no dice "that's life," that's all the people say ridin' high in April, seriously shot down in May, but I I'm gonna change tune when I'm standing underneath a buttery moon that's all off to one side It was just about that time the sun crawlin' yellow out of a manhole at the foot of Street and a dracula moon in a disguise was making its way to its pre-paid at the St. Moritz Hotel (scat) and the El train tumbling across the trestles and it sounded the ghost of Gene Krupa with an cam and glasspacks and the brushes of wet radials on a wet pavement and a jam session on Belmont tonight and the of the pending evening, I leaned up my and I've been looking for kind of an emotional investment with romantic kind of a negociation is as I to consolidate all my weekly payments, into one-low-monthly the nose with romantic and leg akimbo but the chances are more likely I'll probably be over for another smashed weekend