Taking It on the Lam by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview
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They strutted through the rubble as if they were the exalted princes of it, no doubt telling stories of personal greatness, until the booze started to wear off, bringing on that warm and fuzzy feeling featuring one of the myriad of fantasies of an unruffled and popular perception of pleasure at which point they would find a spot in which to curl up and hurl up in the
“privacy” supplied by numbers.
The big bouncer at the “Avalon Ballroom,” a dime a dance joint made his living because of the existence of these people. He had tired slits for eyes which saw everything they needed to see, under a cocked trilby which he wore at a haphazard and varying rakish angle, even while indoors. Having been born muscular and not averse to using the occasional roscoe,
Taking It on the Lam