driving to Vegas

    Tonopah's

    the only place

    contour lines

    appear

    to rise

    between there

    and Goldfield

    the first

    Joshua trees

    beer at the Mozart Club

    from then on

    it's all downhill

    between Mercury

    and Indian Springs

    the light

    begins to change

    you wonder

    what you'll do

    when you reach

    the edge

    of the map

    out there

    on the horizon

    all that neon

    beckoning you

    in from the dark