Taking It on the Lam by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

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he had a rather duck soup time of keeping the bums at bay for the benefit of the “grateful” broads, so that the dead hoofers with painfully full dance cards, who weren’t exactly cookin’

with helium could use their wiles to try to exploit the crippled losers who were trying to exploit them.

I watched some of them “digging the jive” through the picture window the “Avalon Ballroom” had in front. I didn’t make note of any ducky shin crackers. It seemed strange that all eye contact was avoided. I guess the grounds and surroundings were more interesting. It did have a lot going for it as thanks to the big bouncer, it was at least devoid of the presence of any unpleasant Alky Gang dinges. Still, something seemed to be missing which the coin of the realm dimes were not providing.

Taking It on the Lam