Show Civilization on Has Laid Hand on Desert Trail I remember chromes of tha desert trail with hollow-eyed hollow skulls of long horns beside the wagon tracks And now I have bave seen that trail graded and ditched with signs marked marled soft shoulders and speed limit forty five miles There are skeletons beside the road rond now too too the the rusting crumpled skeletons of old autos upside down On that blue mountain blue from here but white sand and pale olive brush when hen you get to It the miners min mm ers used to make male little holes and tunnels In hope of pr precious cIous metal Now there In a n great white A Aon Aon Aon on Its crest visible for miles around A tribute to alma mater from the students of the University of Arizona The new tenants of the land of ot adventure and straight shooting The scientific grapefruit grower The director of the desert labora Inborn tory The professor of romance languages The rho manager of ot the hotel hotel ho- ho tel tel with white-tiled white bathrooms who Is a n member of the Hotel Greeters' Greeters association The lady In a smock who sells Indian art goods The owner of two twenty chain grocery stores throughout the state The Income tax expert The golf The A. A P. P correspondent The wild young pitcher who hopes that a scout from Los Angeles Is looking at nt his curves cur and not at the beautiful deranged sun setting over the mad blue mountains t Robert LIttell In the American Mercury |