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Upon Finding the Wreck of a Car, in the Desert.

Finally figured out what I wanted to say about this photo:

 

On the way from Artifice

To Nowhere

Highway 95: the road from Las Vegas

It takes you to oblivion

Past the ziggurats of dead gold mines and

Brothels housed in ruptured trailers

 

Where days of operating remote predator drones

Destroying people and places on the other side of the world

Days that bear witness to nights of alien sightings

Driving the locals to bars

That advertise 24-Hour Happy Hours

 

Where, in limbo, days and nights are anemic clones

But a life of leisure might be a gamble away, if luck was ever kind

On an Indian reservation: hungry

For the random lost soul

 

It feels like Hell here

With a corrosive desolation that worms into the psyche

I wonder if you walked away from this car crash

Or if you flipped yourself on purpose

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Uploaded on March 20, 2011
Taken on November 6, 2009