Slice of The Cake

Opposite Enmore Theatre is a row of shops looking on

Once upon a time they were homes to some dysfunctional families

And plenty of malfunctional men

Mum and I rented a small room above Lily's Salon

Women buffered the impact like flowers between sharp flint

But the furries upstairs in the forest next door would do beastly things

A drag queen at the end of the hall was a depressed chain smoker

Set the place on fire on more than one ocassion

On the corner was a hotel

I don't know how the owner lived with himself

Raising his family in there

Son began a little gang cause he had the capital

I'd do anything for food

Things a child at six ought not do

But the Bible says "skill brings a man before kings"

It didn't specify

Put me in good steed for what was to follow