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I took to the highway, went out to pico-crenshaw.
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old friends, old friends.


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I took to the highway.
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The highway took to me like a second skin.


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rolled around in the evening,
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circling like a buzzard.
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trouble in mind.

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excavating the space we left behind.


yes I took trinkets with me. left them by the crater.
here ghosts, old ghosts.

smelled all the chlorine. I took the low road 
where the light was just right.

crawled around in the glowing,
all embracing wreckage.
sunburned and snow-blind.

excavating the space we left behind.