this morning i awoke in the crane hotel. a huge pink neon sign sat sulking in the bright blue morning. roswell, NM. home of the famous UFO wreck in the mid forties.i made a point to rise early in order to catch the "UFO museum and research center". greeted at the door by an elderly woman that, given the reference of my location at the time,i chose not to look at. i stumbled around the science project exhibits thinking more of coffee than crop circles. it was actually a very cool way to begin my day, in outer space. after the museum i made my way straight out into the dirt fields of eastern new mexico. all day i drove straight roads through sand storms. bony tumbleweeds sneaking across the highway under the cover of red fog. clouds of yellow and red stood on the highway like uncarwashes. they were actually quite beautiful... at the texas border i turned back south in search of the desert i was slowly seeing die away on the grassy sides of the road. i came out of a cloud to see it once again stretching out in front of me. i have fallen in love with it. i feel the same now as when i leave a friend or a lover. all day i pushed forward. around five i found myself in some-town, texas. old western buildings with for rent signs lined the streets of downtown. empty. all of them... two blocks down the road a super wal mart stood across from a derelict former regular wal mart building, genius. when beauty ceases to have value we are lost... this years resolution is stop using my time and money to fuel the corporate machine. not an easy task but one that will i'm sure prove educational even if i fail. even tonight i have sinned thrice. once with a plate of vegetables, once with a bottle of aspirin, and once with the motel room that i am currently occupying. "we'll leave the light on for you"...and we will place you in identical particleboard cages. i prefer the neon and squeaky beds... on top of it all, there's no bath tub... tomorrow i will make my way to the gulf of mexico or somewhere in that direction.          until then i remain, dustily,