Tom Waits - "Coney Island Of The Mind" 
(Lawrence Ferlinghetti)

 

Fortune

       has its cookies to give out

which is a good thing

                    since its been a long time since

     that summer in Brooklyn

 when they closed off the street

     one hot day

        and the
         FIREMEN

     turned on their hoses

    and all the kids ran out in it

 in the middle of the street

      and there were

        maybe a couple dozen of us

           out there

with the water squirting up

          to the

     sky

       and all over

             us

 there was maybe only six of us

       kids altogether

           running around in our

     barefeet and birthday

  suits

         and I remember Molly but then

       the firemen stopped squirting their hoses

         all of a sudden and went

          back in

   their firehouse

            and

  started playing pinochle again

   just as if nothing

        had ever

          happened

 while I remember Molly
      looked at me and

  ran in

 because I guess really we were the only ones there