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Just before mimosas
and scrambled eggs
standard issue
LAPD Ford compact
metallic blue
amber light flashing lazily
in the rear window
makes the turn
from Stone Canyon Drive
wheels through the East Gate
of Bel Air
The kind of neighborhood
where players
die discreetly
in the pool
in the party hours
of moonlit nights
vanish by ambulance
before dawn
Where a homicide shield
past his prime
knows better
than to shoot craps
with his pension
lets it ride
No film at eleven
no names in the Times
nobody goes to jail
copyright 2006
Mark
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