Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/ poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
Las Vegas, Geographically Speaking
Upon watching the 1960 Ocean’s Eleven
That oasis of Cool no longer exists Except as road markers and artifacts All else is gone: cigarette girls, ashtrays Rotary telephones, Ford Galaxies
The glamour of cocktail dresses and tailored suits Xanadu with electric lights and Scotch Heliopolis with showgirls and cards So Cool that no one ever called it Cool
And like those fragments of Ozymandias All of that Cool is lost among the sands