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By Jack Joseph Smith
"another Queen Gypsy King, but this ones tomb is
gonna bust some rookies."
Animal laughed. "Those cops arn't going to go to
jail."
"They might want the bottle-Baby, but they could
end up in the can."
With his turned up smile Animal went on saying,
"you can skin a pig for your table but you can't
take a cop out of uniform unless he wants to be in
your closit."
Taking on the accent and finger motions of the
Dragon Lady Jaugeline acted out, "he listens to you
chomp on words without meat."
"Just bang bang anywhere will do," replied Daven-
port.
"Or boom boom!" exclaimed Animal and Jaugeline in unison
again.
The Royce rolled on down, and crossing into Santa
Monica where the freeway entrance to downtown L.A.
strips away to the left were men on scaffolds white
washing off a huge painting of a nude women created
across the wide cement overhang.
Three days back in time during the late blackness
of early morning a women artist had set up her own
swing platformed scaffolding. She had finished her