shuffling the cliches of LA
a false idealized landscape
like all the others
we all need a little LA

I can save her from drugs
I can keep her off the needle
I'll get her a job in my store
She'll stock shelves in the back of the store
She won't even be seen by the public
The public would vampire her up
There are nozzles here for such girls
There are industries trailing hoses
antigravity space busses
all through the overbright streets
up and down the rows of motels
in and out the mass transit stations
so she can stack boxes out back o' my store

but y can't keep m down on the farm
once they've been to a rave in LA
once they've sampled the ecstasy of LA
once they've awakened in the backseat of L.A.
you can only trust in gravity
trust they'll bounce off the earth
not fall in some busted drugdeal
not die in some drugdeal murder
down in some murder motel

steely, vulpine, she's ambitious
will take off any number of clothes
pay her dues in all the out of the way places
unwind at night in all the usual ways
never met her but I love her
I'll offer her sex in my van
She'll make a few extra dollars
Better than the prospects in Moline

This is my ultimate goal
To get her installed at a pool
Find her a former rock and roller
Or a sitcom star from the seventies
To find her a guest house in Bel Air
To get her some girlfriends in town
Wean her off drugs in the valley
At a halfway house in Woodland Hills
Watch her in the sun of a seaside pier
Wash her in the Santa Barbara sun
Retire with her in the Squaresville bedrooms
She can be my little au pair

It's all the rage on Tuesdays
Clean the range on Tuesdays
And sweep the pool in summer
I'll save her from the sharks
With my steel shark nets and gates
My cage and bionic bangstick
Preserve her from destruction and decay
Far from the caves of some squishy LA