It would've helped that marker set just past a wrong turn and dust cloud lonely a limousine plodding down a farm road or a tractor ripping up Interstate 40 It would've helped but I thought I'd wander looking for UFOs shimmering on Searchlight Highway somewhere north of Needles Henderson Vegas It would've helped told me where I wasn't but my eye lost the road sign mirror's reflections let loose my glance This is not State Route 95 too dim passing headlights falter a narrow beam |