the kid and i got in the rental car and slammed the doors and drove really fast all the way to arizona. on the way we saw a black man in a three piece suit pushing a shopping cart along highway 40 through the desert. we stopped at my favorite cemetary and paid dubious heed to the poisonous vine that grows along the borders. we were chased along by thunderstorms and huge bolts of lightening that threatened to zap us, rendering all the cells in our bodies to boiling seething masses of heat until our chests would explode- in the split blinking of an eye.