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Sunday, December 31, 2006
Leaving Someday (from "A Slip Of The Tongue")
this Arizona desert can get boring at times
with the granite the cactus the mesquite the creosote and the palo verde. you have to look past the surface to discover what is really out here. and you have to live here to ever bother wanting to look. you see, when I am feeling closed in upon by life I go outside to listen to the quiet and to let my mind go. (the desert is good for this) sometimes it is the ocean rolling along the beach and I am there sprawled out on the sand letting the water lap over me... and sometimes it is green hills and I am walking with the sun at my back and the cities far away... oh, imagination can heal and dreams can motivate. and I have lived my whole life here with the desert landscape stretching out from my window into the emptiness of the horizon. if you know me then you should know that I have been saying and writing about how someday I'll make my way out of this desert. and I am sure that out here with the coyote howls if you listen closely at night, you will hear my voice echoing out from this city and out from the canyons: this desert will not keep my soul.
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