
You can’t rely on this path dug by rebels like me.
It’s been crossed and dulled, impossible to see.
Can’t ride, can’t crawl through it in your Ante attire.
You won’t find a patsy to help you escape this fire.
Neon boneyards flaming in distance, viva Las Vegas!
Leave! Take all you can carry, call a powerful magus.
Hide with someone you trust in the city of betrayed
And hope this isn’t a night that you get played.
Cut all contacts or sweep them under the rug.
Don’t tell them what’s going on, don’t give a hug.
You can only swear on words of a rebel, hold on tightly.
Move up to the east, and keep moving there nightly.
Once the neon pollution leaves your left lung, sleep in.
The river is poisoned, the hills can always steepen.
As the air of the burning city flees your thirsty lips,
You’ll look back just in time to see how it still grips.
Staring back at you with its promise and realization –
Nothing incinerated, your mind was the ruination.
Those city towers were toying with your psyche.
You can’t rely on this path dug by rebels like me.
-JW