empty lot of the Red Steel tavern
distressed in halogen hush — a cinder-block building
Shadwell the seller the dope from Amsterdam
the dollar bill who marks who passes
who would the fact police arrested amaze
Shadwell so they wonder whether was killed
the mayor seems to himself comromised
there was the body you couldn’t find
papers carried it to a strip shop
on the West Side where radios play
if Breen left Shadwell the trunk unlocked
how carefully didn’t the wire give facts
police worded the ransom tenderly for TV
‘s promise of photos hushed the crowd