las vegas 2025 impressions

Here in Las Vegas sense can jump out of you the berry of your cigarette burning your lip brings you back feel around your pockets for your wallet (if you even) find it it's empty ... play Keno with the same numbers until you win. you cannot survive fascism if money is everything. if you do not speak up you lose. you cannot see if you are lost on your phone. do something for anyone ... after the rains the desert air is good on the lungs and one holiday morning we are walking between casinos so alive hunting for coffee when an old man in a yellow tracksuit on a scooter slices a path between a man and two women on the sidewalk to a chorus of fuck yous ... hey sky and trace clouds! hey sun! come on up this final Friday of the year played out ... you don't need to struggle anymore. if you can, just be with someone you love and who loves you. have breakfast in bed... take the longest drive home.  

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publication

My story was published today by Juan De Crivelo

here ...

 https://latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/you-were-i-was-by-katya-mills/

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18

the chambers

reeked of pine sol and plastic 

a humble veneer 

distorted egos 

foundation of fear 

many stood and applauded 

the legislation 

out of touch with 

the nation 

tired parents 

try 2 comfort 

nonbinary 

kids 

one day 

if you don't end your life 

you will turn 

eighteen

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apprehension

in this foggy dreariness

we do recall the bright bright sunny

with hopes for its

return






the forecast ...

marine layer

cold to the bone

rain






we put our hearts together

and map out a week

in the desert






a ten hour drive




no more waiting

go and apprehend your

dream






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crystallize

an SOS signal

flashed from a spotlight beaming 

across the unsettled surface of the lake

the memory crystallized into a value 

firing up the powerboat 

and heading out to help 

the ones stranded 

in the channel

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