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By chris Date: 2004 Dec 02 Comment on this Work [[2004.12.02.14.37.11663]] |
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driving down fourth street to the clash downtown looming above the string of lights before us we take in the flash of the neon hardly vegas but just right for this flight into the heart of things where the signs are in spanish and most of which you have to translate but they point the way nonetheless saying fuck all the clocks it's never too late and i tell you this is more my home than the whitewashed heights i temporarily have my mail delivered to because someone long ago decided it would be cool to live in an eddie bauer catalog where a lowrider is just a song to be played on the oldies station while washing the suv on a saturday senses dulled just enough to feel the general outlines of things at a safe distance from anything potentially dangerous or real where's abbie hoffman when we need him most to steal something? and at a red light i turn to you and we kiss deep risking getting lost in those brown eyes but always taking the chance anyway gawd bless joe strummer and this doomed nation we live on essences inhale deep the complications |