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' across an obsidian sky as the busses go and wheezin', down on the corner I'm on a restless boulevard at a road I'm across town EASY STREET with the tight knots of and out of towners on the and the buildings towering above lit like or black dice all the used car dressed up in Checkerboard slacks and Grant wrap-around, pacing in front of EARL $39.95 like at a shootin' gallery they throw out kind of a Guinan routine "Hello sucker, we like money just as well as else's here" or they you the P.T. Barnum bit "There's a sucker born every you just happened to be comin' along at the time" come over now you know... all the harlequin are on the stroll in a of "LIKE NEW," "NEW PAINT," factory air and AM-FM dreams and the piss yellow cabs stacked up in the taxi zones like pinball to be ticking off a joy ride to a place in line like "truckers welcome" diners with dirt lots of Peterbilts, Kenworths, and the like, and they're hiballin' bankrupt brakes, over driven under paid, over fed, a day late and a short but Christ I got my lips a bottle and my on the throttle and I'm standin' on the corner on the corner like a "just in town" jasper, on a street corner with a gasper ' for some kind of billboard grin stroking a goateed chin, and using parking as sticks on the inebriated stroll with my eyelids open at half mast but you know... over at Chubb's Pool Hall and it was a nickle after two, yea it was a nickle two and in the steel blue dream smoke, it was the radio groaned out the hit parade and the chalk squeaked, the floorboards and an Olympia sign through a torn yellow shade, old Jack Chance himself up against a Wurlitzer and out a 5 ball combination shot you say? ...hard to believe?, perhaps out of the realm of naaaa he be stretchin' out tawny fingers out across a cool green felt a provocative golden gate and a full table railshot that's no sweat and I up against my bannister and wandered to the and I punched A-2 I was lookin' for something Wine, Wine, Wine by the Night Caps starring Chuck E. Weiss or High Blood by George (cryin' in the streets) Perkins - no "that's life," what all the people say ridin' high in April, shot down in May, but I know I'm gonna change that tune when I'm underneath a buttery moon that's all off to one side It was just about that time the sun came crawlin' out of a manhole at the of 23rd Street and a dracula moon in a black was its way back to its pre-paid room at the St. Moritz (scat) and the El train came tumbling across the and it sounded like the ghost of Gene with an cam and glasspacks and the whispering of wet radials on a wet and there's a traffic jam session on Belmont and the rhapsody of the evening, I up against my and I've been looking for some of an emotional investment with dividends kind of a negociation is as I attempt to all my weekly payments, into one-low-monthly the nose with residuals and leg akimbo but the chances are more than likely probably be held over for another smashed