Howe Gelb Follow

... welcome to the desert
its becoming increasingly more expensive
it used to be much cheaper
to find a love and to keep her
to play guitar and reiterate
or embrace the heat and just hibernate
a little tin foil on the window works just great
coming from a long line of coincidence
i'm a vortexan at heart
i can't give one 'for instance'
but vortexas still has my heart
staying at the congress hotel
about a mile from the "no-tel motel"
it's our universe's center
used to live there like a renter
it assembles us with haywire
they lost the top floor up in flre
the clocks are stuck in rewind
living on tucson time
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pinto beans kept us well stocked
to kill the time, we just rocked
catching a buzz from the cicadas
and dancing with invisible neighbors
erosion is our state bird
ha .. that's not what i heard
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