She was an old girl riding through the grassland comforted by the line of brakelights The road cooked the tires maybe the animals that walked across it Her hands were taped together by cheap Canadian nationalism as often happens in these situations The days were endless and the beer was cheap Endless buffets of hash browns and eggs benedict Huge billboards of Wayng Newton and Barbera Streisand A team of trained moknkeys re-enacting the civil war This was better this was life Rich diverse and well prolonged This was Vegas Money was the water injected into this arid oasis in a patch of sand the pulse of its lifeblood If someone was willing to pay for it it could be procured here as part of a thoroughly illegal partnership between municipality and state The two enjoyed a parasitic symbiosis each making it easier for the other to sink its claws deeper into itself Hence theme resorts Hence exotic Canadian bars Hence northern-style lap dancing Hence the scene two days later The small man selling his carbohydrate breast enhancers had been willing to listen pushing aside the postmodern velvet hammock to sit on her goldfish table I really am Canadian Je suis une Quebecoise Really He polished his gums quickly with a new Japanese rubber product she was unfamiliar with Oh yeah A what A Canadian well not quite I thought we ate y all up Back in 2003 She looked at the BQ Resistance tattoo and almost cried We were the last to give in the francophones Well that done show ya! What was the big idea anyway kidnapping our president that way and stickin anal probes in him and calling him a wussy boy! If it wasn t for the fact that he was a democrat we woulda nuked ya right off the bat Yes but it was fun while it lasted Tarned gurl he gurgled I thank thet yoo sure do know haw to have fun but only on a smaller scale Keep atta politics an try ta enjoy the ride She turned around and he zipped the back of her dress up followed by his fly Naw don t lettern get poked er prodded for a few days yet or the stitches maht pop Tarned mess I kin assure you Oui Something in her terse reply betrayed the lack of concentration on his maintenance instructions