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At least that Rocky would dance. The satin should have been a shade of periwinkle to set off that pair of eyes set deep in a flushed kisser, but we hadn’t gotten color yet in which to see him simmer and rove too close to the flame in a black-and-white world, to see him pay for breaking every rule he could dig up and bang his head against, for the crime of aspiring while green. The trick was to exit stage right before the cops arrived on the scene— but what happens when the palooka is a cop? In which cases the trespass is made to go away like a vapor because that is how it goes under the blue protection; names and paperwork disappear become as invisible as fragrance— invisible as aroma such as that which rose wafting out of the blue and white Corningware percolator those evenings at 4:30, just in time for the movie on 7. Its syncopated cough forced warm color into the clear nipple of glass. The snake of your Raleighs or Pall Malls ascended a rope signal from the corner of the walnut table.
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