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And so I peel the cap - 

The plastique beret - 

Off the enwrapped pack

Of my miniature Majorettes

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                Psilocybin and

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                                The Rocky Mountains

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And I teethe a cigarillo

From its standing ranks - 

Five by two, ten toy soldiers

In brand-labelled uniforms -   

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                                Titillation and

Tobacco

                                An ashtray filled

                                        With accolades  

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And I click the factory-set

Button … to a camping-lighter’s starter,

Watch butane run the nozzle,

Belch fire from its tip

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                The road’s yellow line

                                Enfolds into the cliffside

                And the trees dangle uselessly

                                From the derelict rungs of a railroad track

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And my tires turn

And the passenger’s side window

Leaks the occasional entrail

From the car’s carcinogenic belly

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And the road weaves wonder

Between the schisms of a river,

The bleeding of the road signs and

The slow, igniting trails

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                Of the Perseid meteor shower

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And the story blends together

And the sky begins to fall

And the lines encase one another

And an owl sounds its call

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And kilometers grow 

To an afterthought - destinations, 

Useless - and the Empyrean sits inverted

With the tree of Eden, fruitless - 

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                The mountains climb 

Beyond their reach

                                Until their roots

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Split fissures

In trade

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                And moonlight breathes a vacuum

                                And the cedars begin their lean

                And Kelowna rolls

                                In hills of sage - 

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Meridian, along the Mean -    

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                                And the path turns to pastime

And the travel, just a game - 

                                And the folded road

Between Lytton and Hope,   

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                                Toothed, 

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Earns its name.

 

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