Af all the ecstasy one can enjoy As if with no soul Left in some gutter while ******* watching them go by Flames the night to all sorrow Hookers doing their nightly and noble Act An escape from the brutal frenetic evil My lonely nights Of vagrancy of thought and action Alike The intoxicating smell of lost lives Pipes empty of crack The desperate look of a tormented desire Floating the dense fog that slashes your eye