Comments on: Apocalypse http://coyotemercury.com/2009/10/30/apocalypse/ Sun, 06 May 2012 04:50:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Cynthia Short http://coyotemercury.com/2009/10/30/apocalypse/#comment-2183 Cynthia Short Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:14:26 +0000 http://coyotemercury.com/?p=2882#comment-2183 This is VERY good and quite true! (I have always lived 100 miles from Vegas and I find it very very sad). I love your very artistic and yet spot on descriptions of this false mecca. This is VERY good and quite true! (I have always lived 100 miles from Vegas and I find it very very sad).
I love your very artistic and yet spot on descriptions of this false mecca.

]]> By: Therese Broderick http://coyotemercury.com/2009/10/30/apocalypse/#comment-2182 Therese Broderick Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:46:42 +0000 http://coyotemercury.com/?p=2882#comment-2182 I, too, think the Las Vegas imagery is vivid. Is there perhaps a hotel named "Mecca" in Vegas? The four stanzas remind me of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, although perhaps you didn't intend that association here in this poem. I, too, think the Las Vegas imagery is vivid. Is there perhaps a hotel named “Mecca” in Vegas? The four stanzas remind me of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, although perhaps you didn’t intend that association here in this poem.

]]> By: Paul Oakley http://coyotemercury.com/2009/10/30/apocalypse/#comment-2181 Paul Oakley Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:13:09 +0000 http://coyotemercury.com/?p=2882#comment-2181 Somehow or other I missed your posts for a while. Glad I didn't miss this one! Love the Vegas imagery, nice rhythm and flow. I particularly like these lines: <i>Now, unheeded prayers to dollars drift down from the mouths of those ghostlike survivors, mumbling dreams into urns full of quarters</i> Somehow or other I missed your posts for a while. Glad I didn’t miss this one! Love the Vegas imagery, nice rhythm and flow. I particularly like these lines:

Now, unheeded prayers to dollars drift down
from the mouths of those ghostlike survivors,
mumbling dreams into urns full of quarters

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