Vegas is Vegas, babY: Man Utd summer 2023 tour - part TWO
Roll up for the RIDE OF YOUR EXISTENCE. New York, New Jersey, San Diego, Houston, San Diego, Las Vegas. PART TWO OF FOUR: 'Over a breakfast of home potatoes eggs and a large Michelob...'
PART ONE FREE HERE
motoring through the Mojave Desert
motoring towards the neon Strip
heading for the orange-tinted sunset
the light comes down
you dream of the lilac mountains
of heat and the purple hued horizon
of the kid you will become again
for:
Las Vegas
incoming
this darkening Saturday late July American summer night
‘It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand’
Apache Tribe saying
Part 2
Vegas is Vegas, baby
jetting into San D
- oh Saint David
and:
2 days in
running the harbour
eating pizza with extra anchovies and being interviewed by
Joe S
‘manscaping’ he tells the viewers as we chat post- the sit down with Erik ten Hag
at the University of California San Diego
what else is a life but trying to decide when you became YOU?
over a breakfast of home potatoes eggs and a large Michelob
cold
we fly into Houston: 27 July the year the ancients decided would be
marked 2023;
Man Utd 0 Real Madrid 2, Jude Bellingham scores his first for
the
Madristas
Joselu the other
at the NRG Stadium
and Kobbie Mainoo
Erik’s big midfield hope for the incoming new season
goes down early, injured by Casemiro falling into the back of his leg:
sour luck for Kobbie
sour luck for Erik
as The Guardian writes of the match:
‘For Ten Hag, a master coach with a reputation for the forensic plotting of in-game strategy, witnessing his team continually hit on the break was a concern and one that needed addressing at half-time.’
and:
‘Next came his [Joselu’s] spectacular volley to seal the result and a below par outing for United - one Ten Hag will wish to soon forget.’
the next morning i quit the hotel
go to quit the city built on swampland;
at the bar at Houston Airport they play
Desperado
The Eagles
the sound of the States
the sound of the soul
the sound of all of the imaginations of the world
is all the sound of creation
waiting for the flight back to San D
catch it,
hit San D';
and later the sun never stops
the sun is the summers of your life
and
walking out the Harbour Town Pub
Point Loma
this dude
as if he’d always been walking out the
Harbour Town Pub
Point Loma
all his life
is
a blown up Colonel Saunders
white goatee
red cheeked
Hawaiian silk print shirt;
the dude declaring into his cell phone:
‘she probably sat
right in front of her
computer the least
she could do would
be to frickin engage’
except the least we can do
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