Freeway ramp leads to master-planned hamlet, Endless stucco, stucco, tar, and granite, Lodging, gas stations open 24, Weary visitors lurk behind each door..... hour in hotel courtyard, Manager's Special for every Tipsyard, Day ends in corporate sinkhole, Heavy sun dropping through layers of periwinkle..... Pink champagne stains the sky, Veins of scarlet rupture and diie, Blackness erases the horizon, A scarred moon rises over concrete island..... Depression descends, crushing downward, Skull caves in, usual acceptance overpowered, Success and solitude, solitude and success, When shall the t... Show more