Vegas 06/23/10

Vegas

Ozymandias had nothing
on the guys who ran Vegas.
The monuments they built
to greed and excess,
monuments built on the bones of enemies
and the blood of the suckers
who spent all their hard-earned coin
in their casinos:
The Dunes,
The Sands,
The Desert Inn.
All gone now--
less than dust in the wind--
not even the negative space
of where they once stood
lording it over that desert valley.
Replaced by newer, grander
structures, which make up in glitz
what they lack in originality.
And, all too soon,
they will be gone also,
and something else newer
will rise in their place.

©2010-Art Belliveau