Best Shake Man in the Industry- WSB

by novalark

Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2001-06-06 21:49:00

“Recollect when I am traveling with the Vigilante, best Shake Man in the industry. Out in Chi… We is working the fags in Lincoln Park. So one night the Vigilante turns up for work in cowboy boots and a black vest with a hunka tin on it and a lariat slung over his shoulder. “So I says: ‘What’s with you? You wig already?’ “He just looks at me and says: ‘Fill your hand stranger’ and hauls out an old rusty six shooter and I take off across Lincoln Park, bullets cutting all around me. And he hangs three fags before the fuzz nail him. I mean the Vigilante earned his moniker…. “Ever notice how many expressions carry over from queers to con men? Like ‘raise,’ letting someone know you are in the same line? ” ‘Get her!’ ” ‘Get the Paregoric Kid giving that mark the build up!’ ” ‘Eager Beaver wooing him much too fast.’ “The Shoe Store Kid (he got that moniker shaking down fetishists in shoe stores) say: ‘Give it to a mark with K.Y. and he will come back moaning for more.’ And when the Kid spots a mark he begin to breathe heavy. His face swells and his lips turn purple like an Eskimo in heat. Then slow, slow he comes on the mark, feeling for him, palpating him with fingers of rotten ectoplasm.

The Literary Kicks message boards were active from 2001 to 2004.