Out for the West

Bought a Vanity Fair at the Value Village
green tags half off bought some old Nike shoes
and Sean Penn he was smiling from the cover
the kind of smile that says there's nothing to lose just now
November 1994
my girl was 10, someone might have been at war
but i don't know
rang up at $7.54
a few months wear for an hours pay
rain on the windshield showed like diamonds in the sun
May 28 and the Blazers won in OT
Carlyle agreed that the boys had played fair
clean in the paint and the calls had been square
Jason Kidd and Oden were the last ones there when the cameras had gone
sometimes it's 6 to go down 3 to wake up
but the days are short and the night ain't so bad
out in the valley i can hear the last of the trains
and from the porch i hear her calling out my name from inside
out for the west the pioneers they ran
through Utah and the thunder to the golden land
oh Harvey Milk, what a wonderful man