Where fables of our
absent parents
and ghostly heros are told...
What you'll find
scratched on the wall
along the Cahuenga Crawl...
Where the ugly orphans of
the 66 were left to sleep,
but never do..
"...all you want,
all you don't need,
it's all here...all here
in the underbelly of the
old Hollywood underworld..."
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"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald's Silver Hip Flask 
the engraving reads:
"To 1st Lt. F. Scott Fitzgerald
65th Infantry
Camp Sheridan
Forget-me-not
Zelda
9-13-18
Montgomery, Ala"
“Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse.”
To Luck
In the cards and at the bend in the road
we never saw you
in the womb and in the crossfire
in the numbers
whatever you had your hand in
which was everything
we were told never to put
our faith in you
to bow to you humbly after all
because in the end there was nothing
else we could do
but not to believe in you
still we might coax you with pebbles
kept warm in the hand
or coins or the relics
of vanished animals
observances rituals
not binding upon you
who make no promises
we might do such things only
not to neglect you
and risk your disfavor
oh you who are never the same
who are secret as the day when it comes
you whom we explain
as often as we can
without understanding
~W. S. Merwin
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