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Breakfast in Las Vegas
Swirling ribbons of sand,
like
wisps of snow, sift across the
shell-shocked floor, swift as
swallows. Hungry melodies
wallow in the mist. Lips
kiss
the fist of
a desperate darkness.
Lights hang from the balcony
where gold bars gleam in flickering
shadows.
Ice cream women
with lips
like glass, smile. Behind them, the choir
sings a meaningless, scientific song,
the slot machines blink like many
colored angels
and frozen birds chirp like
tinkling bells.
Night shift workers sigh
and white fire
falls shimmering from the
glimmering,
plastic
sky.
Norman J. Olson a 59 year old poet, artist and civil service worker.
Since publishing his first poem in 1984, after many years of submission and rejection, he has
published hundreds of poems and drawings in 15 countries and all over the USA. He worked
in a factory printing telephone books from 1968 to 1988 and since then has worked at civil service clerical jobs.
Web Site
Email: Norman J. Olson
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