drop the keys to the black Corvette in the casket she's dodging late night trucks cleaning up the Gennaro Parade they've put away the Chinatown diamonds she's drinking from a plastic jug of sand on a traffic barricade
the sound of a single car driving at the mouth of the bridge he's in the high beams he wipes up the blood with her bed sheet saying I don't apologize for my extremes
she'd pour some milk in a hubcap and spend all night waiting for the kitten to come out she pulled muscle from bone trying to loose him from the unnecessary he could not live without
she went snooping around and found his handgun and they lined up some cans on a rock wall in a field he said if those Ocala rednecks track us down make yourself as small as you can and use me as a shield
he parked and pulled the keys out and they sat in that car 'til she thought they both would cook he said all the scrap copper in the world won't do you any good once they've dug in their hooks
she said last night in her dream he cupped her in his hands like a hummingbird she grabbed his face hard and said tell me what you want but he would not say a word