1. The twelfth song on Tom Waits' '85 album,
Rain Dogs. It is a chilling, but beautiful,
description of the bad part of town.
2. A street corner, or part of town know for
prostitution, drugs, and crime. A hooker here could be called a Hennepin girl. Cops would be crooked, the food rotten, the bars bloodied, and the sky dark.
Well, it's 9th & Hennepin
And all the donuts have
Names that sound like
prostitutes
And the moon's teeth marks are
On the sky like a tarp thrown over all this
And the broken
umbrellas like
Dead birds and the steam
Comes out of the grill like
The whole goddamned town is
ready to blow.