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...'

Cover pic: Paradisio Publishing

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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

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‘It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand’

Apache Tribe saying

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Part 2

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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