Vortexas - Howe Gelb

… welcome to the desert

Its becoming increasingly more expensive

It used to be much cheaper

To find a love and to keep her

To play guitar and reiterate

Or embrace the heat and just hibernate

A little tin foil on the window works just great

Coming from a long line of coincidence

I’m a vortexan at heart

I can’t give one 'for instance'

But vortexas still has my heart

Staying at the congress hotel

About a mile from the «no-tel motel»

It’s our universe’s center

Used to live there like a renter

It assembles us with haywire

They lost the top floor up in flre

The clocks are stuck in rewind

Living on tucson time

Pinto beans kept us well stocked

To kill the time, we just rocked

Catching a buzz from the cicadas

And dancing with invisible neighbors

Erosion is our state bird

Ha.

that’s not what i heard