The Infinite Asphalt Freeway

Dionysian66

The sun arrived

wearing a stolen siren

 

The palm trees

spoke fluent

apocalypse

 

Freeways coiled

like illuminated serpents

their scales covered

in billboards advertising

new religions

 

The asphalt

sweated orchids

behind

the liquor stores

and television prophets

 

We walked west

until the horizon

dissolved into

great golden copulations

of sunlight

and memory

 

The city performed

the same miracle

on a larger scale

 

Not in glass

but in pools of gasoline

where angels drowned

trying to remember

their names

 

The stars hung low

ripe as forbidden fruit

 

Everyone

was beautiful

and doomed

 

The night opened

like a black flower

and from its center

a choir of coyotes

sang the ancient

mantra

 

It turns blood

into music

music into fire

and fire into

terrible knowledge

 

Los Angeles

is not a city at all

but a dream

the desert

keeps having

about itself

  • Author: Dionysian66 (Offline Offline)
  • Published: October 15th, 2026 16:35
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