No Good Reason

(for Las Vegas)
 
no good reason
just cause we’re young and alive
driving around 
          all friday night
boulder city and back 
                    four times
it’s not a crime      to get a flat  
tire
city used to be much smaller
you could know your neighbor
drives up indian springs 
              to see my father
in the pen
no good reason      why bother
just cause 
       we’re young and alive
and damn is the desert wide
indian springs another time
that time
      he died
i got this sunshine on my side
   but the shadow’s long 
       it lingers    
learned words
 counting on my fingers
 letters      and numbers
   and homework
riding bikes on bad dirt
 hitting jumps      
being young meant you could take a thump
and always      always 
     another growth spurt
growing up and out      our skin
the endings written deep 
in beginnings
indian springs         
         the circle of things
boulder city 
for silly things
             the circling
           earth spinning 
            sun rising
if it weren’t for this flat
   officer
i swear      we’d still be driving