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Tony Moffeit

leaving las vegas


drunken city

jazz horn real estate

born in jazz horn


sound track of her lips

roulette drink

lady luck dice roll neon sign


las vegas wheel

stroll in leather

the sidewalks are hot


yeah horn yeah

death in profile


around the hub of the

lights of the city


stumble down

stumble in


crap shoot he can still

feel the bottle

in the dice


thrown out of the motel

head daze tropical habana

crosswords unfinished


and moving on to solitaire

yeah comet

yeah flaming comet


o turn to burn oneself out

burn in solo

star along the weeping vine


out on the town

take a night flight

tonight's the night


wilderness grow wilderness

in flaming jazz horn


grow


out on the boulevard

she strolled

he had gone into the casino


she had spit on the bouncer

she in patent leather

to go down throw down


it was guerilla warfare

the air was smoke


headwaters on their way to hell

looking for crazy horse in a mirage


in a jetstream

they searched for his face


as shadows moved across the sky

the wail of the blues from a horn

the horn wail and bodies burning


warfare

turned on

and out of it


choose your weapons

choose your partner

choose your gang or be alone


be alone and then choose

for one for two as one

choose the blues


like backnight poker

under the neon

breathing the sand of the dunes


put it in overdrive

one last time

turn to fire


the trailing foam

to awake in that space

take on the town


drowning in liquid

in the desert


game town

played down

two and one and three the numbers


five and four and six the numbers

gaming

the sides of the dice


bones pulsing from convulsion

the bottles unhidden

the demon that's ridden


and feel the horn

it's what you're born for

and to be thrown out


white trash

of empty bottles

and the mercurial ride


leaving and returning

leaving and returning

leaving


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Thunder Sandwich #26 - Summer/Fall 2005