Burned and Damned
The California Dream
is burned
and damned,
not alive
and well.
We’re not fooling
anyone.
I’ve been here
for 10 yrs. now.
Come splurge
on a 1 bed, 1 bath
$500 thousand dollar
abode
built in the 70’s
in a shit-ass
part of town
where the homeless
creep
and stray cats
weep.
Come die
in scathing traffic
on hell-bent freeways
where it takes
1 hr. to travel
7 miles.
Come roast
in frenetic
forest fires
or get
swept away
with the ghoulish
Santa Ana winds
to another place
that might have
your “perfect”
weather.
It’s not here.
It was once,
maybe.
But that Dream
has crumbled
into rubble,
shit out
by Nightmare,
the replacement
for his successor –
The California Dream.
Horror Sleaze Trash 