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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