she was called the perfec  t flapper
in hey-day in the                 twenties; Colleen
                         could dance all night,            drink & smoke
& drive real fast in a                               souped-up Model T
all the best movie strars are Europen except for SDC Colleen Moore;
the perfect flapper             if u went to war & fought in                           WWI u came back w/ French                             postcards & s         howled ur friends &                t            s          why do     old gf friends always       come sniff ing around     this is what      the girls in                    Europe are like & u'd be as right      
u'd have a         vamp in ur head; T                            heda or as **** is brown shirts, buddy        when a guy has a little dough
Barbara Lamarr         Z or Pola  Negri      or Gloria Swanson     ,      but when u
come marching              home           in 1918 u                           were bored &                                  wrot        e pulp
fiction about                            an imaginary city where
                                         crime rules & big, bad hero takes on all
comers w/ only his two fists;                                 he's a demon
who fights for the good &                                    in his normal
                                      life he's a                   milquetoast cabby who's always
on the scene when a robbery breaks out &
the crooks need                                       a fast getaway after he takes
              out the waiting driver;        .                   the gang is captured
w/out ever knowing                                         how; the Black Demon
strikes again & his gf is a                                               champagne
  the hard-drinking writer cranks out his pulp stories at first          for a penny-a-page but someone said                 up the kid's pay & soon it was $1,0o.o0@page                                                  dr­inking hard-partying s              ocialite; his squeeze     then he was a thousand; what Scott zFitgerald got almost;      
on                           the side is a        l         owly        waitress who reads W
        Screen Magazine dreaming
of living a like a glamorous          Colleen More; the perfect flapper; in heaven & in hell;           &                                           he never sees his
face b/c he arrives on her fire escape w/
                         her bedroom light off expecting him                   & in the                                        flashing red       neon
all she sees is his red body; her body                                is red too
& still again a burlesque stripper   truth is t          here is o virginal blonde  
      waitress                              but there is a stripper, Maggie, he meets after the show & they grab a
bite & he b sneaks him past her
landlady up o the roof where           he ***** her on the naked    c tar     tat tr & sh always has         scratches & welts
all over her *** & back & both  their  
kne  
e   but Maggie takes a hot bath & he climbs                      on e kneel      coming by one
                      afternoon the old landlady
but if it's early               enough he'll take to a Colleen       M oore movie; she's the perfect flapper               who really, really  
            lived it up; drinking, smoking,                *******, d Charleston   lured him to her room; she had every issu
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r
e of the pulp magazine  where    he gets     
pushed as the next Fitzgerald; it's ludicrous;      he write mystery man thrillers                                            Z
pu         dd          blished his mystery      suspense she knew he was           the guy wrote them b/c the mailman told her;
  who else would know, right (so,
he ******        the landlady & she never      
made  & he never             told          
                the landlady  wasn't really
old, she's onl       y 35 born 1890  just  he was
born ten years later & just    turned       in the army from 1917-18                  twenty;       he made a    ***  he         17-18 year old nailing a 35 year old on the sly     good-boy            
             looked it;              not old just ugly     but good from the                        bottom up so he learned
lady was born that                  he ****** her
*****              daughter once  for two bucks   
   (girl lives in the b           asement shooting up    & doing guys in the             dark  in the            middle of    the  dusty floor      
a peep; her even            & his             gf don't know         he's ******* the landlad y b/c she sleeps all day & only sees
him after midnight             got her a free subscription      stories         down  the fire escape &         slips      into h
             er bathroom & they shower
together until he leaves back out the window & over the roof to avoid th          e nosy       landlady;       es are scabby      waits for
the demon to drop in on her before the dawn