ONE
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Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows
sits in the kitchen nights and chews a two-bit
cigar
cigar waiting for the bulls to pull his joint.
Jimmie was a dude. Dark hair and nice hands.
with a little eye that rolled and made its point
Jimmie’s sister worked for Dick. And had some rows
over percent. The gang got shot up twice, it
operated in the hundred ands
All the chips would kid Jimmie to give them a kiss
but Jimmie lived regula. stewed three times a week.
and slept twice a week with a big toothless girl
in Yonkers.
in Yonkers. Dick Mid’s green large three teeth leak
smoke: remembering, two pink big lips curl. . . .
how Jimmie was framed and got his
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