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Ascot Noir

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Dream:

the man stood far off

whatever is shaking in the world doesn't bother him

standing in the woods, through the soles of his feet
he feels a distant river roaring through a cataract...


...


empty miles

El Producto companion

last chance gasoline vamp

Astrud sends red-letter smokey denials

stable as a bullet-ridden hotel room in Tangier

...

early afternoon appointment with death

pit-black shades hide his smiling eyes

he's the ebb tide, midnight undertow in a wine-dark sea

Tuco listens to the old cruisers lie, trying to buy

an hour of love with wooden nickels

while the piano man plays lullabies;

their mother is the street

...

glance at the moon

watching the flotsam and jetsam on 42nd

tomorrow boarded a train to Jersey and points west

so all I've got is now-

maybe...maybe I'll give Helen a call

we might drown each others sorrow

...

bronzed sunlight stabbing concrete

sleek jet plane idling in its berth

only raconteurs, card sharps, and gem cutters allowed

we'll share the decanted brandy

we'll deal ourselves in

riverboat aristocrats gambling to win

the affections of Lady R

she sets the time at Greenwich

for New York, Paris, London and Rome

she mastered Chanel legerdemain long ago

...

settle in boys
it's gonna be a long night
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very nice read. I got confused about wooden nickels and card sharps. I couldn't think of anything like a wooden nickel--what did you mean by it? And I've only ever heard card shark, so card sharp was new to me. Is that really a thing people say?