Vegas is Vegas, babY: Man Utd summer 2023 tour - FINAL PART
Roll up for the RIDE OF YOUR EXISTENCE. New York, New Jersey, San Diego, Houston, San Diego, Las Vegas. PART FOUR OF FOUR: 'as i drink a vat of red wine and picture rain and thunder...'
PART ONE FREE HERE; PART TWO HERE; PART THREE 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
FINAL PART
Vegas is Vegas, baby
there is a silly drunk in the PGA TOUR bar
at Harry Reid International Airport
laugh like a giraffe panicking
who
projects a grating baritone across the joint;
soon, hopefully, his flight goes…
as i drink a vat of red wine and picture rain and thunder
the Virgin Airlines 10 hour sore-eye into Heathrow
the whole plane asleep and hearing violins and trumpets
feeling
beauty
creating beauty
dream of the stuff
it’s the only way
and finally lying in your room in the gloaming and
wanting a cup of herbal tea listening to the night fall
down the side of your windows
traffic surfing along the millennia aged highways
you ponder:
what was all of that ???
what i see now is the runway at the bottom of the Strip at
Harry Reid
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