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Lawrence Welsh

            Mine Tours

what eyes become
road kill avenue
or coyote ways
to circle back
complete the loop?

slender padlocks
open
for el paso truckers
or dreamers heading
to alamogordo escapes

where the general store
is closed now
always was
but a man says
don't let the locals
fool you
the gold is still here
locked in with the crash
100 years ago

only protection now
an oro grande ritual
of stay
or cold burn
on the premises
where only citgo gas
and two lanes
usher you in
to keep you
out




[photograph] 'Diesel Fried Chicken, Texas'
Diesel Fried Chicken
(Taken at a truck stop off I-10 near Van Horn, Texas.)
Jessica Powers
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Copyright © 2003 Lawrence Welsh

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