Wednesday, July 15, 2009

"I just need a Quarter to get to the Rolling Stones..."


glazed testament to hallucinogens, she was a suede boot

case study in spiritual quests gone permanently wrong,

out searching the tortillerias and mechanic shops

of lower valley El Paso for

Mick Jagger, or a fix, she needed to faint

in a demigod’s presence,

she needed purpose.

and a quarter

to feel

rock and roll

flatten her permed bangs with

distorted dirty talk guitars and drum rolls,

watering her dried up carcass with patchouli and sweat.

but before I could donate, her

mascara smudged smoke eyes shot open

and she leopard stiletto sped her El Camino

towards the desert mirage

of a resurrected record cover, her

exhaust pipe streaming ideological contradictions

behind her like the arc of a falling star.

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