SLOT MACHINE
CASH
Quarters
Gonna do the laundry
he says
he says
Gets on the highway
lighted like a landing strip
lighted like a landing strip
the slate of darkness scribbled on with a neon pen
somebody's cartoon car
flyin thru analog Ann Landers land
flyin thru infrastructure
flyin thru statistical abstracts of the
United States past encryption past the
bank machine past past lives into the
beating heart of the last days of the
twentieth century he comes to a
slot machine.
CASH
CASH
CASH CASH
Who knows where his heart is
His heart was ripped out and
buried in a mattress stuffed with cash
he guesses
he guesses/every couple of weeks he
takes the metal detector out to
the national park
hikes up to the big chasm that separates
us and them
which the founding mothers and fathers
did not envision
which nobody thought would happen
wonder how it happened
wonder how it happened
how'd the rich get that rich
how'd the poor get that poor
how did everybody get so murderous
how'd everybody get so ready to kill
over the stupidest s--t
he thinks it must come down to CASH
must be everything comes down to CASH
in this country anyway
in this country anyway
to avoid misery
Pulls into the parking lot
lots of money in his pocket
gets a drink
drinks it
drinks it
drinks it
and the quarters
go in
the slot
machine
and the quarters
gets a drink drinks it
drinks it
drinks it
and the quarters
go in
the slot
machine
CASH
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CASH
he took the day off work
so he could be with his friends
Sammy and Davis
and ride around Telluride
and ride around Vegas
He says he wants to live
a life free of boredom
a life free of pain
says this the U.S.
and there's money everywhere
in the desert hills
in the darkest bar
in the deepest casket
in the poorest excuse
in the flat expression
in the fabrication
in the sliding land
in the Sands Hotel
I'm goin the store/
takin the car
ignoring the index of
economic indicators
and the statistics
that tell me I'm poor
I'm goin the store
I'm goin the store
I'm goin the store |
CASH
Quarters, quarters
he says
Takin the car
he says
lighted like a landing strip
lighted like a landing strip
somebodys cartoon car
flyin thru dark dark digital backyards
flyin thru bank's glass door
flyin thru bankrupt economies
emptified ghetto streets made morbid by
gut reaction of kids backed by gat not by gold
not by God
slot machine.
CASH
cash machine
CASH
CASH
CASH
His heart is in a bus station locker
His heart his remains he says he says
he questions he questions things but no
answers ever seem to come he knows
religion is not the solution
every couple of minutes
postal worker massacre
slaughtering law firms court rooms
where does it end
how does it happen
wonder how it happened
wonder how it happened
how'd the rich get that rich
how'd the poor get that poor
how did everybody get so murderous
how'd everybody get so ready to kill
over the stupidest things.
he thinks it must come down to
CASH
must be everything comes down to
CASH
CASH. CASH
everything comes down to this:
CASH
gets a drink
drinks it
drinks it
drinks it
and the quarters
go in
the slot
machine
gets a drink
drinks it
drinks it
drinks it
and the quarters
go in
the slot
machine
orange cherry lemon
orange cherry lemon
cherry lemon lemon
cherry lemon lemon
cherry lemon lemon
cherry lemon lemon
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orange cherry blank
orange cherry orange
orange cherry lemon
orange cherry blank
orange cherry blank
orange cherry cherry
orange cherry lemon
lemon blank cherry
orange lemon blank
lemon blank cherry
orange lemon blank
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry orange lemon
cherry cherry cherry
CASH
Sammy and Davis
and ride around Telluride
and ride around Vegas
He says he wants to live
a life free of boredom
a life free of pain
and there's money everywhere
in the desert hills
in the darkest bar
in the deepest casket
in the poorest excuse
I'm goin the store/he says
takin the car
and the statistics
that tell me I'm poor
I'm goin the store
I'm goin the store
I'm goin the store
isn't that what money's for?
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