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Hurled into the desert by a beatnik pilot and dropped off just above nirvana.  I find myself in a peculiar yet remarkable position.  I am now alone.  I look out above the high sierras and find a moonbeam shooting down on the valley below me.  I follow it down and realize it is not a guiding light but that of a 747 landing at LAX.  I am up here with the coyotes and jackrabbits.  Equal prey once I get hungry.  I have a canteen full of gin and a beretta 32 caliber pistol.  No directions no map.  Who cares?  The other thing I have is a tin full of sardines and 4 joints of some primo sativa.
I begin to wander towards the city wondering what I will find on my way down.  I crank up a joint and take a hit of gin.  Another night in city for me, its just a few miles down through the valley.  I’ve been here before.  Messed up on crank.  They keep telling me I must survive.  And I keep asking them what is it that I must survive?  This ain’t no homeward bound trip.  I slip into between rocks of billionaire’s homes hoping not to set off the security systems.  When I get to the bottom will they pick me up or have they dropped me off for the last time?
I change my mind.  I head the other direction.  Away from L.A. trekking towards the desert and maybe home.  At least there I have a chance of a new beginning.  There is nothing left for me back there.  I stumble and fall but I get up and keep going.  There is something and somebody there for me.  I just need to keep moving.
Sometime around dawn I awake from an alcohol and drug induced stupor.  I think of heading back to L.A. it would be so much easier.  Then a car passes and I stick out my thumb and she stops.
“Hey where you heading?”
“Anywhere but here,” I reply.
“Hop in I am headed for Santa Fe.”
“Sounds good to me”
“You like the Grateful Dead,” she asks?”
“Hell yeah I got some conscious bud here.”
“Cool”
And the road begins to wind to our future.
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