THE FALL

 Now some of you guys might be surprised

            at what I’m about to say;

and say who is this lame that says he knows the game

            and where did he learn to play?

Well I’d like to tell of how I fell

            and the trick fate played on me;

so, gather ‘round as I run it down

            and unravel my pedigree.

It was Saturday night the jungle was bright

            the game was stalking its prey;

the code was crime in the neon lime

            and the weak was doomed to pay.

When crime begun when daughter fought son

            and your dad he lay in jail;

as your mom lay awoke with her heart almost broke

            cause the pad was up for sale.

Where blood was shed for the sake of bread

            and drunks rolled for their poke;

by the sleighish hand of a murphy man

            or the words that a con man spoke.

Where addicts prowl with a tigerish scrowl

in search of that lethal blow;

and the wino cringes from the canned-heat binges

and finds his grave in the snow.

Where bellies of vice sell love for a price

            and even the law is corrupt;

as you go down trying you keep on crying

            “man, it’s a bitter cup!”.

Where the jungle’s creed says the strong must feed

            on any prey at hand;

I was branded a beast and sat at the feast

            before I was a man.

In the gaudy display of the midnight ray

            lit up like a Christmas toy;

I made my play for a female prey,

            at the time I was just a boy.

I was young and prancy, pot was my fancy,

            I was known as the adequate male;

but I cursed the day I made my play

            for that sidewalk Jezebel.

She was brown-skin moll like a Chinese doll

            walking up and down in sin;

back and forth she’d trod with a wink and a nod

            to the nearest whorehouse den.

Now it wasn’t by chance that I caught her glance

            cause I intended to steal this dame;

and I smiled with glee and said golly gee

            its time for the kid to game.

Her eyes shown bright in the neon light

            and from them a teardrop fell;

when I asked her why she began to cry

            and tell me this bitter tale.

About some guy who blacks her eye

            and takes all the dough she gets;

and how she lays in jail and he won’t go her bail

            and dares her to call it quits.

I said, bitch dry those tears and have no fears

            for the kind lover is here;

and I staking my claim for a piece of this game

            and vowing I’d have no peer.

Jim! the bitch looked at me like a slave set free

            and said then daddy I’m your girl;

and her man didn’t stir as I split with her

            and we made it all over the world.

She caught on fast as the months rolled past

            she played it to the bitter end;

no better hoe I’ve yet to know

            although dog is man’s best friend.

She was a three-way winch played jasper in a pinch

            took ‘um around the horn;

no Jean or John this whore couldn’t con

            cause that trick was never born.

She was a good shot broad, a pro at fraud

            drag, she played like a vet;

she played stuff like an ace, never lost a case

            put many a mark in debt.

She ranked with the best in the east and west

            when her boosting hand came down;

she’d steal knots out of knees and Fido fleas

            she stole out many a town.

Now I heard hoes cry of the wind being high

            and the law being on their tale;

about snow and sleet being asshole deep

            and the tricks can go to hell.

In the greasy spoon or that juke saloon

            you can find them killing their time;

crying hard-luck tears and sucking up beers

            and the pimps ain’t getting a dime.

Turning half-dollar tricks to make a fix

            with the pussy doing the pimping;

man, they’re just ruining the name of a helluva game

            cause the pimps are doing the simping.

Now they’re ducking and hiding, slipping and sliding

            sucking those part packs;

and nodding so tough from fucking with stuff

‘till the bitch can’t even see her tracks.

Monday morning for sho’ you can’t find this hoe

            cause some rookie cop has caught her;

so, you pawn your shit to get her a writ

            and the bitch ain’t made a quarter.

In a month or two when the rent’s over due

            and the landlord’s hopping mad;

she slides ‘tween your sheets with no receipts

            talking ‘bout daddy the night was bad.

Why you could cop her lid for the lowest bid

            you could set her ass on fire;

you could dig in her cunt for a solid month

            cause she was the cheapest hoe you could hire.

But know the price when you deal in a vice

            you know it’s a steady grind;

but a bitch has to go and be a real good hoe

            to beat this triple bitch of mine.

She dropped many of bug on many a mug

            too numerous to call their name;

many of sap got caught in the trap

            by the lure they call the game.

For a lip and lap of her mellow cap

            the tricks would fight a dual;

while all the long bread was made with her head

            this bitch was a real jewel.

She had a good round-eye and that’s no lie

            how the trick house door would swing;

many a nut got busted in her but

            ‘cause the rag didn’t mean a thing.

Anywhere she’d follow that righteous dollar

            to hell if she had to go;

and be there waiting to trick with old Satan

            man, I had a money-making hoe.

Like a sex machine she’d walk between

            raindrops, teardrops and hale;

and stand on hot bricks to lure the tricks

            come cyclone, blizzard or gale.

She tricked with Frenchmen, torpedoes and henchmen

            to her it was all the same;

with japs and Jews, apaches and Sioux

            and breeds I can’t even name.

With Chinks and Greeks with Arabs and freaks

            she tricked in the house of God;

no son-of-a-gun would this hoe shun

            who could pay to use his rod.

Why the sun didn’t set when her cunt wasn’t wet

            and my pockets were heavy with gold;

many a trick with a weekend dick

            got took for his entire roll.

Now I laid and played off the stuff she made

            from the Coast to old Broadway;

my game was strong ‘cause my money was long

            I made this business pay.

But the trouble began when I ranked my hand

            and stopped blowing and started to hit;

why Jim you know I blew that dough

            faster than any one hoe could get.

I blew my shack my Cadillac

my rug up off the flo’;

I sold my Ice for a pawn shop price

and shot up all that dough.

I stole from Maw, I swindled from Paw

            I sold my pedigreed pup;

I pawned my threads, and sold my bed

            and shot my TV up.

But the deadliest blow came when the hoe

            took sick and couldn’t gin;

the Chinaman spoke and it wasn’t no joke

            for I knew this was the end.

She had bleeding piles, inflamed bowels

            for a month she couldn’t even pee;

I was shot to hell when her ovaries fell

            and things looked bad for me.

But believe me friend when lockjaw set in

            the china man took his toll;

her head was dead her ass was lead

            the lips of her cunt were cold.

So down I fell to the depths of hell

            for I had put myself in a cross;

as my habit grew tall my money grew small

            everything that I had was lost.

But I wanted to be fair and, on the square

            I didn’t want to buck the saw;

so, I said what the hell since this bitch ain’t well

            I’ll get her a wife-in-law.

There’s that cute little bitch with the whorehouse itch

            that I can latch onto;

or that red-headed hoe that rearing to go

            If the deals ok with you.

‘Cause there ain’t a bitch in the game with your kind of name

            for kicking the mud you kick;

So, lay on there till you’re feeling fair

            and we’ll see can we make this click.

Now, a bitch like this is a good man’s bliss

            she had everything that it took;

but she had one fault when she got caught

            she couldn’t shake loose the hook.

“Hell no!” she said, I’ll see you dead

            before I let you go;

the black coach of sorrow will pick your ass up tomorrow

            if you step beyond that door.

I blew my health in a bid for wealth

            so that you could play your bit;

but naw – you went hophead and blew the bread

            now you talkin that stable shit.

I ain’t going for no bush, or no bum whores rush

            I know that’s what you plan;

talkin’ real slick with all that bullshit

            motherfucker you ain’t no man.

I’m hip to the way you pimps try to play

            and the lugs you drop on a frail;

but if this shit don’t cease, I’m gon’ to call the police

            and bury your ass in jail.

I packed my shit firing to split

            and this is what I said…

bitch!  if that’s the way you want to play

            go make your own damn bread.

I can’t cop no swag with no swaybag nag

            whose thoroughbred days are past;

I’d look pretty dam silly putting a cripple as philly

            on a track that’s much too fast.

I was gon’ put you in charge of a trick house lodge

            and give you some girls to rule;

but you spoke of hell and sending me to jail

            bitch you must be a goddam fool.

Cause a bitch can’t shit without a good man’s wit

            and one monkey don’t stop no show;

why in an hour or two I’ll have me a slew

of bitches out there to hoe.

So, step aside I’m fixing to slide

            I mean get the fuck off my back;

my ‘loot’ is low and I need me a hoe

            who can run that speedy track.

Now while lying back in another hoes shack

            about to make my plea;

I heard a thunder that the door shook under

            and wondered what the fuck this could be.

A “roller” walked in on his face was a grin

            mined with a deadly expression;

he said if you’re Bud the pimping stud

            all we want is a signed confession.

My woman stood there with her finger in the air

            that’s him she cried with glee;

that’s the sonuva bitch with the con man pitch

            who made a hoe out of me.

A crashing blow sent me to the flo’

            I sank in a black repose;

when I awoke my nose was broke

            and blood was all over my clothes.

I played it strong but it wasn’t long

            for they took me to court;

man, you should see the shit the bitch had writ’

            In the books of the police report.

Which goes to show that the strongest hoe

            can give in to that female simping;

this bitch was born with a female scorn

            that got me five counts of pimping.

Now here I lay in jail, in my eight by twelve cell

            watching the sun rise in the east;

as the morning chill the jungle’s still

            I think of that slumbering beast…

Farewell to the night to the neon light

farewell to you one and all;

and farewell to the game may it still be the same

when I get done doing this FALL.