here's to las vegas:

Trashed

and

half asleep

at a shimmering Las Vegas bar

watching the lights flash

and the last of the big time losers

still playing their hearts out,

blinking their eyes

in a two o clock in the morning haze.

And me

with just a few miserable cents left;

can’t even afford

to buy this hooker on my arm

another vodka tonic

let alone

taste the young and luminous flesh

between her thighs.

Ending the night in oblivion,

alone in a hotel room

and feeling

as if the last strands of my existence

are strung out

across sparkling Nevada skies.

U.V.RAY

Las Vegas

22nd Februray 2005

3.15 am.