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Did you hear the news today?
Or did you fuck off to the desert to shoot lizards with a toy sling shot.
Your watch, a cracked artifact from the late 1900’s; novelty tied to a human hand grenade.
Hair untouched by soap for an insurmountable amount of time — water, yes. Lakes, rivers, backyard rain buckets. Fluoride-free, organic, top-shelf shit.
The overalls your dad used to wear slinging dirt in rich people’s yards sloughs off your spindly frame.
The hole in the crotch patched with an old Doors t-shirt. Tits peaking from either side of the straps like Mesozoic mosquito bites, leathered by Nevada sun.
Did you pick up the 24-hour news mill on your transistor radio? Or did you crank Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
smoke a roach atop the aluminum Airstream
and watch fireflies flit through the desert salt grass
as a cool breeze laps at your bare toes.
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