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I will be speaking on the fires but first
I need to wetten my nose
in the panties of the burnt city angels
To visit the pale parts of them
Still untouched by brown toxic sun
To breed with them under uninhabitable ozone layers of our westside sky

Yea, before I pick up a pen,
I need a tanker of girlsquirt dumped onto the canyons of my aging face and the ghost of Veronica Lake to jiggle her tits just out of reach as I chase them through the fields of South La Brea Blvd
where OJ’s knife never got found
with my tongue lapping allll around her black-and-white moviesilk nightgown
FUK

Every time I see an Asian girl
I think it’s my one Asian ex-girlfriend,
Who
broke up with me shortly after a movie by Hong Sang
Soo.

I thought the love triangle was brilliant!
Having one actress play both women—
Brilliant! True!
Turns out, they weren’t one actress.
They were two.

Yea, before I pick up a pen,
I need a lopbreasted angora sweater in a South Pasadena jazz bar with the crazed eyes of one who just moved here,
Who has never seen Casablanca,
Who has no connection to Calabasas,
Who plays bass, is of Mexican race,
And sits across me now at the jazz bar showing her bellybutton under the red lights of my last unburnt Los Angeles place
I’ll get to the fire yea
Shit, I even know who lit the match.
But first— I need to secure South Pas snatch.
And failing that,
A double-double at In-N-Out, STAT
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She sits next to me and orders a stout.
"I don’t drink anything unless it fills my belly to the brim," she says.
in 2 minutes I've hooked my boot to her barstool,
Poked at her funny-looking beer bottle,
Go to smoke, when I come back—
She is surrounded by 5 bald men,
A fedora in a wheelchair,
A young saxophonist with a white Tesla and tiny chin
I cut through him as he is in the middle of getting her number
Seven scotches later, he exits stiff as the instrument case on his back, head down.
I figure she left out the front
to dodge us all.
Then she appears.
"Need a ride?”
My car is parked right behind me…
"Yea, a few blocks down.. would be great."
Once we’re in her Blue Infiniti, I confess—
I just want to talk & circle the block
Buy her a milkshake
And feed her the straw
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