I. Fifty-One Clicks Out to the desert here I have come Fifty-one clicks now where I am from Or thirty-two miles and a few smiles Away to stay the night anyway But with tomorrow become today I wonder now if I just might stay Definitely indefinitely Away a safe distance from trouble Just enough from that Plaza bubble I left bereft of a place to be That maybe this is the place for me Fifty-one clicks now where I am from Out to the desert here I have come II. Four Fattish Cats Four fattish cats are courting me and want to win my favor Cats who represent each one a favorite feline flavor With a calico a tabby too a white cat they call Red And a black cat who wears white socks (or do they wear him instead?) III. Only Love Knows How What is it we reach for What is it above us Striving all and each for But someone to love us? Someone who accepts how We are both here and now Who cares enough to say How we are is OK Not then but here and now Today not yesterday To love us anyway When only love knows how IV. For Marisol and Bowser Dusty dogs rolling on the desert floor Laughing at each other and the sky After the sunrise another day more As the flaming desert clouds roll by Roosters are roistering goats start to yell Time for it all to fire up again The desert in sight in sound and in smell Dusty dogs sense it is time to begin V. What the Hell What the hell I might as well be This is it and this is me In the desert doing fine Living on the fly Now I begin again Living on peanuts and wine Out for sun and fun Again how I begin Living simply living free Somehow I get by This is it and this is me What the hell I might as well be +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXII