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...sweating in the moonshine when Vegas lit itself in the valley. Sammy pushed it to eighty and chickened out, dropped a dozen quarters in the slots while Rick followed the girl in the red leather to the twenty-one table. Then they went out to watch the sun rise over the neon. Gassed up, they drove to Beverly Hills, chewed on grass, took a swim and choked on the air a little...
...Rick wanted to sleep. Sammy gave him the backseat, turned the radio on low and wrote a letter to a guy he met in Chicago. It was a funny letter but he did not have the guy's address. He stuffed the letter in the cooler in the trunk. A wet loaf of bread had green measles. One can of apple juice still bobbed in the melting...
They drove to the top of the canyon when Rick woke up. He still looked sleepy, rings under his mustache and all. Sammy drove up the wire past the glittering mailboxes until the road leveled out and a new valley peered up at them. Wow, said Sammy. Rick took pictures to send back to his girlfriend in Missouri. Wow, said Sammy...
...Rick did not have a girlfriend in Missouri but he said he did if anyone asked. Sammy was the only person to ask. He knew that Bea was not Rick's girlfriend. It was a joke they had between them. They hated each other...
...hood popped up in Iowa and Rick missed a telephone pole by the page of a Gutenberg bible. Sammy sat up. Everything was fine, but the Dodge was in a ditch. A patrol car came by and pulled them back to the road. You have any controlled substances, any firearms? No, said Rick. You're no fun, said the patrolman, climbing into his car and leading the way through the corn fields...