I could live near Vegas, forty minutes from the lights, or move to Chicago, work long days and sleep long nights, stay outside the beltway with the preening socialites, or any other town on the list of potential sites.

Go professional, and make my future more secure, or find fulfillment preaching debt relief for [...]

Woke up the other day, gave up, and drove away. Just had to get out of Summerlin.

But they made me wait, at the subdivision gate as the guard hit the buzzer in.

I don’t understand why this takes so long. What do these people want with palm trees and lawns?

This isn’t the [...]

Every morning when I wake and pry open my eyes, my bedroom floor is spotless clean and outside the world dies.

The folks I like still walk the earth, and though none have said it, where survival is concerned, I deserve most credit.

In my hands, my own world, my own family preserved. In [...]

I dragged my father through the cemetery gates. The hoof marks were wiped away by the drunkard’s bloated weight.

His pockets held some dirt, and paper black with plans. His dead eyes hid their goal – tires on tin cans.

I built the chassis up, used Dad’s old whiskey bottles, fueled it with desert [...]

(Oh-oh-oh!) Everybody come around. (Oh-oh-oh!) Look out toward the blazing light. (Oh-oh-oh!) If the rats are claiming ground, (Oh-oh-oh!) keep your prey within your sights!

So come on, make a circle now. Surround them hand-in-hand. Jump a little closer now. Turn these cowards to sand.

(Oh-oh-oh!) The sun has got them in His teeth, [...]

Look at them out there, living on the ash that stretches forever in this barren gash. The Lord guides our wagons, He won’t let us crash. The Lord guides our wagons, He won’t let us crash.

Can you see them circling, the twister-blown trash, Our Father will come down, save us with a flash. [...]