Elegy

Amber_____backlit
_____booze
bottles
_____through_____thick
_______________tongue
__________news was not
passed by
_____thirty-second spot
_____following
an upbeat cat bit:
no one knows_____why
how__________blood
trickled, liquid thread
down the rain
__________gutter.

A perp runs,
returns fire.

_____"Never wore a wire."
_____His proudest line.

Covers doffed.
__________Pour
a round of shots.