If it's true that "the music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs," then the person who wrote that line is one of those who makes it so.

By the way, Pat, I heard the routine outlined in The Sick Note on an old Fred Allen radio show skit when I was a kid back in the Forties. I presume that when you say you wrote it, you mean you took the story and put it into poetic form, right?

Don Firth