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- MAN WITH THE WOMAN HEAD
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- Are you with me on this people?
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- The man with the woman head
- Polynesian wallpaper made the face stand out,
- a mixture of Oriental and early vaudeville jazz poofter,
- forming a hard, beetle-like triangular chin much like a praying
- mantis.
- Smoky razor-cut, low on the ear neck profile.
- The face the color of a nicotine-stained hand.
- Dark circles collected under the wrinkled, folded eyes,
- map-like from too much turquoise eyepaint.
- He showed his old tongue through ill-fitting wooden teeth,
- stained from too much opium, chipped from the years.
- The feet, brown wrinkles above straw loafers.
- A piece of cocoanut in a pink seashell caught the tongue
- and knotted into thin white strings.
- Charcoal grey Eisenhower jacket zipped into a load(?) of green
- ascot.
- A coil of ashes collected on the white-on-yellow dacs.
- Four slender bones with rings and nails
- endured the weight of a hard fast black rubber cigarette holder.
- I could just make out Ace as he carried the tray and mouthed,
- "You cheap son of a bitch"
- as a straw fell out of a Coke, cartwheeled into the gutter.
- So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood,
- So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood,
- So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood.
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