Thing Inspired by a Remark about "Drugs"
            by an Entertainer at the A La Carte Cafe
                 on the Evening of July 16, 1976

"There's a lot of drugs in Hollywood."

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"You mean like when you're awakened in the night
     by a drug storm and you lie there listening
     to the thunder and wind and hail,
And think about how in the morning
     you'll have to get up a half-hour early
     to shovel the Quaaludes and other assorted pills
     out of your driveway,
And how the traffic will be terrible
     even if the drugplows do manage 
     to clear the streets and freeways in time
     and worse if they don't,
And that there'll be enough Amyl
     crushed by the tires of passing cars
     to give you a rush on the way to work
     whether you want it or not,
And ..."

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"There's not THAT much drugs in Hollywood!"

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"Oh"

                                        Thomas G. Digby
                                        written 0215 hr  7/17/76
                                        entered 1645 hr  4/11/92