South La Brea

Down the street with the Kosher shops

Passed the rummage yards with the antique props

Beauty queens and homesick harlots

All line up in the LA gauntlet

It's the corner where dreams are made

Where flaws are fixed up with pills and powder

The beginning of success and failure

At 200 South La Brea

Changed her name and headed to the city

Took out that loan and bought herself a Mini

Recites lines at the grocery store and then

Quotes old movies at table 4

They say:  "Can you sing?" and "Can you cry?" and

"Will you take off your top if the price is right?"

"Do you smoke?" and "Do you drink?"

And "Do you wash your spoons in the bathroom sink?"

These are questions

At 200 South La Brea

Obsessions

At 200 South La Brea