there's a blur drizzle the plateglass as a neon swizzle stirrin up the sultry night air and a yellow of a buttery cue ball moon rollin' maverick across an sky as the busses go and wheezin', on the corner I'm freezin'; on a restless at a midnight road I'm across town from EASY with the tight knots of moviegoers and out of on the and the towering high above lit like dominoes or black all the used car salesmen up in Purina Checkerboard and Grant wrap-around, pacing in of EARL SCHLEIB $39.95 barkers at a shootin' gallery they out kind of a Texas Guinan routine "Hello sucker, we like money just as well as anybody 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 are on the stroll in a of "LIKE NEW," "NEW PAINT," decent air and AM-FM dreams and the piss gypsy cabs stacked up in the zones waitin' like machines to be ticking off a joy to a magical place in line like "truckers welcome" diners with lots full of Peterbilts, Kenworths, and the like, and they're hiballin' with bankrupt brakes, driven paid, over fed, a day late and a dollar short but Christ I got my lips 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 street corner a gasper lookin ' for some of Cheshire billboard grin a goateed chin, and using parking meters as sticks on the inebriated stroll with my propped open at half mast but you know... over at Chubb's Pool and Snooker it was a after two, yea it was a nickle after two and in the steel blue dream smoke, it was the radio that out the hit parade and the squeaked, the floorboards creaked and an Olympia sign winked through a torn shade, old Jack Chance himself leanin' up a Wurlitzer and eyeballin' out a 5 ball combination impossible you ...hard to believe?, perhaps out of the realm of possibility? he be out long tawny fingers out across a cool green felt with a provocative gate and a table railshot that's no sweat and I leaned up against my bannister and over to the Wurlitzer and I A-2 I was lookin' for like Wine, Wine, Wine by the Night Caps starring Chuck E. Weiss or High Pressure by (cryin' in the streets) Perkins - no dice "that's life," that's what all the people say ridin' in April, seriously shot down in May, but I I'm gonna change that tune when I'm standing a buttery that's all melted off to one side It was just about time that the sun came crawlin' yellow out of a at the foot of 23rd and a moon in a black disguise was making its way to its pre-paid at the St. Moritz Hotel (scat) and the El came tumbling across the trestles and it sounded like the ghost of Krupa with an overhead cam and and the whispering brushes of wet 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 some kind of an investment romantic dividends kind of a negociation is as I to consolidate all my missed weekly payments, one-low-monthly the nose with romantic and leg akimbo but the chances are more than likely probably be held over for another smashed