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Editor\u2019s note: Plain everyday observation and recording of yesterday’s long ago road roam came in dribs and drabs in the author’s journal over many years. Most was a kind of reporting, actually a remembering of the \u2018seeing,\u2019 \u2018hearing\u2019 and ‘feeling’ from that one night. It was carefully transcribed on found scraps of paper whenever the images, sounds and feelings reappeared and was then typed, more or less as it was seen, heard and felt.<\/p>\n
I remember that night well in that cheesy motel
\nTV on low, we were dog tired and beat
\nThey were selling death, crack cocaine, crystal meth
\nFrom the white Lincoln idling out by the street<\/p>\n
There was no rhyme, no reason, and they weren’t in New York.
\nJunkies running from themselves, money and the flesh
\nMistaking powder for love, these seekers with no song
\nAnd it still is for those of them left<\/p>\n
Oh, most don’t get away, most die in a lousy way
\nJust throwing it all away to the ground
\nThey can’t get away, it’s hell when they can\u2019t pay
\nFor making themselves numb, humming lil sweet songs<\/p>\n
I remember that night well in that cheesy motel
\nWe were headed to Eff-Ell-A
\nWe watched with TV on low
\nJunkies fixing over suicide doors<\/p>\n
There was no rhyme, no reason, and they weren’t in New York.
\nJunkies running from themselves, money and the flesh
\nMistaking powder for love, these seekers with no song
\nAnd it still is for those of them left<\/p>\n
I remember that night well at that cheesy motel
\nIt was the summer of oh seven
\nThe riders that night, trying to steer clear
\nAnd me, I was just trying to stay even<\/p>\n
The riders left the next day
\nClosed their eyes, turned their back on the pain
\nThey were still riding along on wild dreams
\nRacing the midnight trains as far they could see<\/p>\n
Those they left behind had no dreams
\nJust nightly motel scoring schemes
\nOutside the rooms, desert wind ruefully rustles
\nInside inward looking eyes growing darker in deep corners<\/p>\n
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