Las Vegas
And the MGM Grand is made of jade
that glows like canned heat. Manna fed
lions lay down with lambs in green shade,
spitting rice for the blissful newlyweds
blessed by Elvis. She is a beauty queen
from Racine. He got caught in a downpour
of ducats, having invented a slot machine
that goes off like seagulls and grackles at war.
And suspendered croupiers at Mandalay Bay
can recite Ozymandias, that sonnet by Shelley
for a lonely sandman who hits Ten the hard way
again and again, glazed buffet for empty bellies.
Hooker with a Heart? Shirley ... she runs rings
around your naked finger, for the luck it brings.
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