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MapQuest to Anyplace Else I’m afraid of the year before it’s even begun, the roads Paralyzed with ice, the generator coughing sparks. And where, my love, have you gone? To west Texas, That colony of barbecue and cow shit? Or Vegas on the freak, Bad checks and the sick light of sodium poles? You were never like Kyoto, too beautiful to be bombed. Always kind to the crazy ones, the failed and lost, I could wrap my heart in asbestos, fireproof and killing me. If my days are numbered, let them come In Roman numerals, like Super Bowls. Out here, I’m at the sharp end of the argument, And the wind’s still whistling Dixie out of its cold ass. • • • 18 ...

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