Sixteen travelogue haiku, collectively known as Don't Mess With Texas

Tim Cummings, 2002

CENTRAL FLORIDA
culture shock hits hard
obese bored fatigued people
rockets dali sun
SANTA FE
adobe abodes
galleries o'keefe ansel
blue corn green chillies
ALABAMA (by Ringo)
waffle house breakfast
scary redneck mullet dude
evacuate now!
TAOS (New Mexico)
cool mountain fresh air
pueblo indian village
forest fire smoke out
N'AWLINS
steamy hot cajun
voodoo jazz bourbon dodgy
dark french old southern
GREAT SAND DUNES (Nat'l Park, CO)
enormous sand box
in the midst of the rockies
can't see no ocean
LOOZIANA BAYOU
backward backward wrong
abusing nature bastards
cypress swamp gumbo
BLACK CANYON (Nat'l Park, CO)
vast sheer deep scary
holy vertigo, batman!
a 12-second fall...
TEXAS
ford f350s
big land big people big mouths
don't mess with texas
SOUTHERN UTAH
arches canyons red
dusty mountains valleys red
sandstone boulders red
BIG BEND (Nat'l Park, TX)
one-hundred-six F
mountains rio mexico
prickly pear cactus
DESERT-ED BODY
ugh, it's bloomin' hot
mucoid crystals clog nostrils
cracked toes flaky lips
DESERT DRIVING
forty dust devils
dry tumbleweed buzzards hot
secret missile sights
LAS VEGAS
sin sin sin sin sin
gamble glitter gaudy glow
sin sin sin sin sin
WHITE SANDS (Nat'l Mon., NM)
white peace gypsum dunes
like powdered arctic snow drifts
only hot surreal
LOS ANGELES
thick cloud of brown smog
trashy smelly traffic jams
city of demons





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