I & my wife took a trip to the artifical paradise out in the desert again/ this time around for a week/ what really stood out wasn't/ all the action/ nor all the neon lights/ nor the people from all walks of life/ nor the 109 degree days/ nor the trip to the Grand Canyon/ nor the painted desert/ nor the joshua trees near the highways/ nor the roadrunners that crossed/ nor the slot machines...!
(I can gamble/ I can throw my money into those one-armed bandits/ & it don't matter if I win or lose/ I can take it or leave it...!)
What stood out about my trip/ was a book I brought along/ a book about the life of the great poet from Chile...Pablo Neruda/ What a well-written book about a poet that had such a passion for life and for language...!
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