Mike Finley

Zzyzx

Night time in the high Mojave,

the ramping sound of passing cars.

Broken bottles, clear and brown

glisten in the headlamps.

People came to Soda Springs

to take the waters which were supposed

to be some hydrological cure, but

the waters of Zzyzx, California

are neither hydrated nor logical,

just a smear of chalk

in the starless dark 

on a windblown slope

off I-15.

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