### ### ### ### ### #### ### ### ### #### ### ### ##### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ##### ### ### ########## ### ### ########## ### ### ### ### Underground eXperts United Presents... ####### ## ## ####### # # ####### ####### #### ## ## ## ## ##### # ## ## ## #### ## ## #### # # #### ## ## ## ## ## ## ##### # ## ## ## ## ## ####### ####### # # ####### ## ###### [ Clipped Short and Back ] [ By Holly Day ] ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Holly Day Clipped Short and Back still dream, places you touch in sleep but never moved toward almost reached once, thin morning alcohol-caked teeth, cracked lips, screaming empty all the way home, emptier than ever before and why do these fragments of hangover hurt so much, too much need for something that will never be--housewife, settled against the cold kitchen wall, gin and ice in a child's plastic tumbler drinking alone to imaginary streets a thousand miles ago, and everything unsaid Holly Day 1830 To the End of the World The sun sets red on the limestone cliffs scarred by the footsteps of disillusioned patriots more than a hundred years ago, quiet idealists following a crazed man with a beautiful dream of Utopia. The ghosts of silent devotees march along the mesa tops, still forms clouds the evening sky, Moroni beckoning on, on, through the desert before dawn. Some men pretend content facing tolerance and some men have the courage to turn their backs on it all, conceive of a better way, a better life a better world. Joseph Smith, Brigham Young-- I salute you and all of your dreams. Holly Day My Mother would take me to work with her, sometimes, on nice days. I'd sit all by myself in a secret deep hollow filled with wild grass taller than I was and fluorescent blue butterflies. If I sat very still, the butterflies would land on my head as if I was a fairy princess and they were my ethereal pets. At the end of the day, my mother would wade through the field and take me up to the farmhouse she worked at. She'd pick me up and put me on the back of the horse she had most recently finished breaking and lead me around and around the track, laughing at my shouts of "Faster, Mommy! Make it go faster!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- uXu #371 Underground eXperts United 1997 uXu #371 Call LHDý -> +1-818-546-2332 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------