Point Arena

Otto shambles along.

He won't admit it but he's lost

His pursuers are nowhere to be seen.

Tongue of the Pacific

Bloom the strange blossoms.

Burnt-out brains.

I rip cars.

CARTOON FREEWAY  EXTERIOR   DAY

Chevy Malibu

on a dirt farm road

New Mexico plates.

We invent ourselves

 out of ingredients we didn't choose

by a process we can't control.

To get to the shack i found

you have to cross a rickety bridge of splintered boards.

All winter long i burn wood

The flames are lavender

and mossy green.

Oak burns with a peppery smell.

Centuries and hordes of us,

from every quarter of the earth,

What, possibly, could make their ground more bare?

Piling up

Each wave going back, to get some more.

Beaches are strewn again with Jasper, Agate, and Jade.

At the feet of the final cliffs of all Man's wanderings.

Delirium is a disease of the night.

No scene.

Just give me the pawn ticket.

Don't call in the neighbors.

 It won't do any good,

 I promise you.

NOT THE BRONZE CASKET BUT THE BRAZEN WING

Language

words and gestures

DUKE and DEBBI sitting in a beat up car.

 They smoke Shermans.

The common home of the placeless.

DUKE is spaced.

DEBBI is hot and impatient.

(DISTANT GUNSHOTS)

You don't have to if you don't want to.

i want to. right now.

There is an underground network.

We call ourselves the Keepers of Ezekiel.

We come from every walk of life.

GEODESIC DOME   EXTERIOR   DAY

These are the stamps

on the final envelope.

SOARING FOREVER

 

ABOVE THEE O PERFECT

O SWEETEST WATER

O GLORIOUS

WHEELING BIRD

She gets out of the car and dons a ski mask.

Duke follows her.

 Is this your car?

Are you a gangster?

It's my manager's.

I'm in a band.

We're called VICTIM OF THE STATE

They shoulder SHOTGUNS

GLOWING   CITYSCAPE   OUTSIDE

This is the last place.

There is nowhere else to go.