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Waco to the Sea | Split Decision | Streetlight | Tacos | Purple | As Good as It Gets

Waco to the Sea

Six 10MG Adderall pills

Those little blue angels

Take me into the night

Then, through to the light

Wide-eyed over the harsh country. 

Sunset in the Pecos,

Sunrise in Indio

Over Coachella Hills

Day break yellows

  the Golden State. 

Home again. 

Like a bullet, West on I-10

    15 hours straight

     through the Indian ghosts

Adder-rolling through windmills

         And casinos

Across the barren beauty of our

United Mexican States

Once stolen from Spain

But first from the Comanche, 

The Huaco, The Navajo, 

Pueblo, Morongo, 

Apache 

Now nothing remains

But turquoise on chains 

It’s all spectres 

in fetters

From Waco to the Sea. 

A blood soaked history

I think,

Just to me

As I’m grinding my teeth

From amphetamine

I keep my pedal to the floor 

and my head  in the sand

A white ostrich racing

Towards the edge of this land. 

Split Decision

I made threats

Then I left

When I was healthy 

and she was sick

I was out of love

Then Covid hit

And I got sick

I relapsed hard

The liquor store

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