Seeing Eli so happy with Chuckie,
Ivan thought he might settle down
Eli brought him a glass of whisky;
Forget it, Ivan, you're running that
herd of cats, you can't settle down.

Ivan had long ago bought the rights
& catalog of the UNKNOWNS; the
band everyone commonly called Uk;
Simply announcing a concert started
violent, lucrative riots as the damage
had to be paid for & material
purchased to rebuild; after a Uk
concert there was typically an
infrastructure boom, the bribes
guaranteed: the workings of a Mafia
State are thus; one either pays the
government to operate legally or
pays the mob to operate illegally.
When the gov't is the mob one
pays off the top dog for the privilege
of paying off the smaller dogs.

You know u're right, said the Poet,
I should go to to Hollywood & marry
a movie star. Eli gave him that awkward
oblique stare, "U're a glutton for pain.
Why not marry a *******?"
Ivan's eyes widened lit with fire.