Jem

Something I Can Do For You?

Amargosa Opera House at Death Valley Junction CA in Mojave Desert
Amargosa Opera House, Death Valley Junction CA. iphone 12 Pro iColorama app

I’d come close to the Mojave’s affection
only to float on too quick and too far West.

Seeing me she said something
I can do for you? Shaking my head I let her go on, got me some


coffee and went back to work feeding myself pretty lyrics and lead.

—-Faylita Hicks from poem Self-Care

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