Firebird days, Nevada sands
Adam reborn, I am the dust man
Devil whirl blow
Particles collide inside
A Hiroshima sunset
The war-men behind goggles silent, pacific,
The rattlesnake river rattles over rocks
And into concrete cradles
Where it lullabies like B-29s subdivisions
Where they try to wash off the mudblood
The desert tamed by freon, the
Granite pulled by rakes,
Manifest destiny,
The sword flashing at the gate,
Accelerator spinning curses, cactus
La llorona wades into the Colorado
Wails a litany of laments
The river runs mud
In these canyon veins
Copper, gold, uranium,
Dinosaur hillside-scraper machines
Rescuers search in the rubble
Teachers count under desks
The damsel in distress
A silhouette burned into the concrete.
Two edits, it probably needs a good eight more...but it's way better than anything else I've written lately.
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