Carlsbad
Tyler Cain Lacy

"a gutless wonder"
I topple overupset

City
Fears Slayer Roams
Streetsthe most beautiful
you've never seen

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no shopping no
mall no fun
for the young

NO. LOUD, OR
DIRTY, MUSIC.
PUBLIC NUISANCE LAW. #30-8-1
THANK YOU. SOUTHSIDE CARWASH.

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what we do
have is a
Wal-Mart
in which
line by line
I walk through
looking to check out
the whole
while hearing
"I hate havein to
buy shit like
a fuckin tire"

You're welcome

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the Caverns

EAT 750 FT.
UNDERGROUND

Which of you are scrambled?

great domes
carved
from limestone rock by
the action of water
over 60 million
years

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attendance normally heavy
at this time of year
(Goes.)

only few
local people
and tourists
turning out

anger and uneasiness
among residents mounted

Usually Crowded
Playgrounds Now
Almost Deserted

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a tough crowd
to change

cowboy boots still
in windows

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"At the hospitle.
My 2 yr old niece
Stopped breathing.
We know nothing.
Prayer would be awsome."

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"Well Paul the Boys gave you a birthday gift. Stupid Cowboys!"

wells are everywhere water
rights can be moved so
water can too

to Texas naturally

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the Pecos River

begins
or is it Lake Carlsbad

these days

having been cut off

on the sidewalks
where kids play
between little blocks
of cement and sand

a chalk line
an orb

wrapped in red arms

the heat

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the ratio
of persons to dirt

an estimate based
on newspaper
observation

"kids
hollering up
and down canyons

wild Indians"

hold your horses
to a walk

police themselves
uncertain as to
the number

found
by two rabbit hunters

in a remote section
of Rocky Arroyo
12 miles northwest

in the brush
"all them strokes"

that keep people
mostly out
of the picture

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Cost of livingdrilling in deep

and oil too
people take to

eyes big
silver dollars

rigshorse heads
bobbing for apples

across the land

"weeds dying and till
everything all dies my allergies going"

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tarantulas after the
rainkeep from splattering

peel off
the highwaylet's
stop here