Venice Beach (Narrative)

[Spoken Word]

Venice Beach is poppin'

Like live shrimp dropped on a hot walk

Hucksters, hustlers and hawkers

Set up their boardwalk shops

Home for all the homeless, hopeless

Well-heeled and deranged

Still, nothing here seems out of place or strange

There's an old smudge of a beatnik by the bay

Looking like a dog who's had his day

Like a dream he drifts away

He likes to go out on the pier

To hear the reedy carousel

It's got a melody that sets you free

And says, "Let's set a spell

Just to hear the heartbeat in L.A."