Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks
The Hollywood Hills empty, spentonto your hard asphalt shorelike a wave in ebbat the foot of some green, oppulent couch
Day and night your dirtis bought for golden fortunessold for the price of a soulas chaste as a summer whore
Guns and ravaged hearts beatdistant, almost too far to believesorry as a tiny tortured petbeneath the groaning weight of class
Cars as rich as castlesin narrow ruts as if to follow pathsthey don't even know existand would defy if they ever did
Like a disenfranchised childI've forgotten by nowthe life you gave me;so oblivious of me
Bruce E. Lisker -- 11/95