Our Man in Europe, now Belize, Dave Delacroix: A CRIMI-Trinity, No. 2: "Kit Marlowe in a Fedora."
...AS I WUZ WORKING ON MAH FOOT DANGLING, ruminating on an overdue "Mullet" grooming, trying to get that song - one I didn't write - out of my morning's head; Bloody Mary's don't always cure what ails U, your GALS foto U slam face down and as the phone ain't ringing, U just ignore it. Never bug a Dog with its bone. If U got a dog. If it's got a bone. If U got a phone.
...WUZ working on mah "foot-dangling" like a drunk in a Motel room, staring down a fifth of "JACK" hypnotized by my tobacco-stained fingernails, accomplishers to the signing of Bank Cheques (kites) U expect to bounce, no tomorrow (Peggy Lee singing: "Get out a'here. Get me some money too.) no monetary expectations, a new fedora- a dream. The best laid plans of Mice & Men just coming home to SCREAM.
WUZ working on my "footsie-whootsie", that rocking chair/Punk Rock chewing Gum of the mind; an inner kernel of festivity- which sobriety cannot hide. JUXTAPOSED, a parallel, a universe, I cranked UP the Venetian blinds, behind me, SHE cruised into the room, a CLIENT, Safari-tied gaberdine, pink slacks, a scimitar straw hat (worth $50, $10 resale), Chanel No. something. A fresh wave upon my barren shore. Gene Tierney?
As I, now done with my "foot dangling", I resurrected my limbs! Nothing PRIVATE 'bout a P.I. We're listed in Phone Books, on the Internet, sometimes even on PORNHUB as long as we wear Spandex, a THONG, nor cavorting with anyone under 16, P.I. MARLOWE with a new (enquiry agent) Case. UP to his neck in competition like Kit Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Marlowe at his creative heels to solve/explain Julius Caesar's murder...was this Gal, my new Client - Cleopatra by name - I ASKED her were U actually in the room? Cigarette butts anywhere? Temple of Pompey? A private address? Honey, I think I need more information?...
c.2026. Dave Delacroix.
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