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GLOSS GULCH

a mad thirst
plodding textual
a dry wind
evaporating thoughts
like the 'Touchless Wash'
dryers

she rides higher now
clearing the ruts
my steerhide trusty gloves
on the old floor matts
dried pools of white salt
glistening on my armpits
my good shirt

Humming to the radio
my arm scorching in the
blaze
my ring tapping the big
suncracked wheel
the fox tail whipping from
the rear spring radio mast

Vegas...an eternal reward

a roach gripped between yellowed
teeth....to mellow the scenario
in the haze the mesa's squat
then...back on the blacktop
running through the valley
sagebrush squealing on the
long body lines....gonna hose
er down...vacum her out at
the outbound hands on coin op
wash and suck

Freedoms just another word for
nothing left to lose
nothing....yah baby nothing aint
free

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dry..forever ever main highways..and the lone hoodoo and aircraft parked behind fences
their great monolithic tails like the sandstone shapes....taking turns radio low..everyone
asleep in co pilot captian plush chair.windows popped curtians fluttering
a van..wood platform sleeping mats..steady sixty....

this was actually someone burying something...debt....deed..money...cache...
car rides lighter...gloves...dirt..need to clean...loose away the ghost dust..
metaphor...vegas...everyone tells me i should go....too broke to go....but i would
like too see the old strip whats left...the ruins...test nuke sites...etc...
my friends always enjoyed the drives with me...no purpose...just hours of
hitting town..coffee..radio.the motion..the wind..the motor purring..
car wash..the ions in the water now i see...water glistening on the wax
tank replenished...fm in the night...was magical...an unwinding to the pent
up short ends of the day....
all those times seemed worthless and a waste of money and gas...
but you know..my friends i chat with still talk of the times so it was worth
everything..

thank Audri
Steven!

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