| Tourist Attraction Sky pulls its muscles taut For miles until it seems to tire The horizon A perfect line Bleak Chiuanan desert Blazes with the devastation of tourism-meets-culture Every 3 seconds there�s a corpse Standing in place of an american dream Juanez brother�s famous mexican food Flickers a signal of life The slim figure of a boy burnt with the labor of being hostage To new mexico heat stands in perfect life magazine photo pose A demonstration of destitution Bare feet tug the sagging red dirt and a flash blurs the air For a moment A moment fossilized for a grinning father with his family Camera dead rung round his neck like a noose Barely breathing the round belly of a young girl strains over her eyes A syrup thick with the comforting feeling of surrender Welcome to the great frontier Postcards are 65 cents or three dollars for 5 A reminder of the glory of a nation |