The Return of the Return of the Return of .....

Listening to Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

Strong-armed Sally broke away from her homeland and came to live in America. I'm not sure which part but the back yards of the houses on the edge of town were the last bit of human landscaping for hundreds of miles. You could walk in a straight line out of Sally's back door and not come to another house for days. I see an evil light in the sky here, a permanent sun-through-cloud type of light with no sunrise or sunset. I had the first degree awarded to an illiterate and it shows. How bad can it get?

Sally loved some man from here and that is why she moved but no one can remember who it was. Her love got lost in the loud music she liked, stuff that frightened most of the locals who thought it dangerous and foreign. She was reported to the authorities who decided she was harmless but annoying. They could not find any law to make her stop so she is allowed to carry on playing this noise as loudly as she likes. Sometimes a gap-toothed old-timer comes to her door and screams for some peace. She might turn the volume down for a bit but within the hour, when the old man has trundled away back to his Jack Daniels, she turns everything up to eleven again and the rattlesnakes slither for the hills.

Sally's back garden is sandy, just a part of the desert rolling over her property and into her emotions which are sandy also. She eats alone always and has no real friends inside the state boundaries. Years ago, when Sally was a teenager, she would sit overpowered by her love for this man from here. He might let her buy him a drink but he never really loved her back. Sometime later she may have moved back here, over the Atlantic. She liked to think she came home on a romantic liner but really she flew. And what is so spooky about this is that she never went back again. This dusty town is where she was born, and first fell for that loud-mouthed warmonger who never returned her calls. She thinks she still loves him but that doesn't matter because he is dead by his own hand in a roundabout sort of way. He killed someone he thought was bad and they got a gang together and came for him. Sally was there; she scratched a few people or maybe tried to calm everyone down but in the end he just died there in the dust. They never buried him. Sometimes he is still on TV when they want to make a point or sell something for old people. But he is definitely dead and not moving.