Collapsed Lexicon | Page 90

  for  back  road  capillaries,   taking  in  the  bigger  picture:     Black  hills  and  yellow  grass,   rolling,   rolling.     I  say,  "This  is  what  it’s  all  about—   finding  something  untouched     and  unmoved   to  move  us."     Getting  drunk  in  the  sharp  shade   of  Devil’s  Tower,   making  love  on  the  sidewalk   under  the  dome  in  Missoula   by  the  river,   strumming  chords  and     banging  drums  on  Seattle  streets,   sharing  wine  with  strangers,   amphetamines  with  runaways,   taking  the  ferry  to  the  rim,   losing  control  on  the  edge  of  the  world,   and  just   too     damn  busy     living     to  write  it  all  down.     Near  Klamath  Falls,   not  far  from  the  California  line,   90