SLICK AND SLICKER  2

They looked and they looked and smiled in suffice

Each eager to please and keep hidden their vice

Ruth mentioned how handsome he was and square jawed

He winked at her and said he was awed.

They were each controlled by their own family boss

Each eager to please with no family loss

Though electricity flew, you could not discount

They’d have to be happy, discount the amount.

For each had a plan right up in their sleeve

Retribution for him to pay for his grieve

Frankie, his brother, had died at her Speak,

Aside from their power, they still had a leak.

Someone had snitched, Speak would now have to pay

Sign over the club or reveal where he lay

Was it down by the Docks, deep down in cement

Sharin’ time with the fishes and sharin’ that rent?

But she knew the truth, the girls held the cover

A Castellano had “turned,” his own little brother

He’d  wanted a cut of the Speak’s rum and its booze

Unbeknownst to his boss, he’d make the Speak choose.

Frankie’d stepped out of his territory and into a mess

Easy for “Greed” wanna’ make more of less

He wasn’t happy, 

his pay scale too small.

His boss didn’t pay him enough that was all.

Frankie’d wanted in on delivery, he’d keep his mouth shut,

Or unhinge their territory, just for the glut,

Not for the long run, but  for a while

Extortion can work but not the long mile.

Little brother was framed by his avarice move

He didn’t know of each family’s groove

The rumrunner’s cost was shared by each

Each boss respected each bosses’ reach.

Snubbed out by his own within his own ranks

Slick not informed, now his deal looked like a prank

On the QT from Boss Mario at table

Wanting to unravel what he was able.

Slick, using his front in the newspaper biz

Slicker using hers to out smart his

She, one step ahead, he, one step behind,

No idea her paper and boss were aligned.

Well, wha’ duh yuh know!  Into restaurant…

Stepped Enzo Delluca with a swagger and saunt,

Right up to the table giving Slicker a kiss

Defined with cool manners, not a beat did he miss!

Watching Slick Castellano’s crazy look on his face

Enzo leaned in to watch Slick squirm in place,

He spoke low and slow, “Wanna’ evade a gang war?

You and Ruthie here, can even the score.”

You and the Ruth show up at her Speak

Watch over your shoulder, make up with the “leak,”

The Unurban will welcome your romantic pairing

Little Frankie snubbed out for his out of place daring.

We had to give him the “ice,” your little brother,

We’d been on him now for a long undercover,

It was quick, it was clean, sorry about that,

But now you got Ruthie and that is a rap.

By Flo Lawrence