Shakedown Nick

been in this pro

scammer’s eyes

for ten seconds,

maybe, and he’s already oozing

weasels

and the fat guys with the

hundred dollar wine, the engineer, Dave, and the

legal drug wholesaler A.B. short for

alter boy, as he tells it

haven’t sensed their dicks

in years,

let alone this

Shakedown Nick from “baltimore”

who “just got done

with school and is

in town for a week” cleanshaven

(sharp as a kitten’s tooth, this Nick

and

“what a cool bar this is” he says “i been all over town

and this is it”

separating the drunkest from the group

and leading him away)

what a

cool

bar

indeed,

Shakedown Nick, i see