Dust

To ride that lightning It was a flash before my eyes Gone like a weekend Say it, don't strike twice Oh, but baby, I'm praying It finds me again And strikes me down It's getting old, running all alone You make the call but there's no one home Just echoes of a last goodbye Through canyon walls and a desert sky Maybe I should have tried harder It was a flash before my eyes Gone like a weekend And they say it don't strike twice Of a baby I'm friends It finds me again And strikes me down If only I would have tried harder to ride that lightning It was a flash before my eyes Gone like a weekend Say it don't strike twice Of a baby I'm prayin' It finds me again It pulls me in It strikes me down You, you're probably rollin' Somewhere out west then Me, I'm probably layin' Somewhere alone Me, I'm probably laying Somewhere low in You, you're probably rolling Somewhere out west in Me, I'm probably laying Somewhere low in Somewhere out west and

Dust on his boots Sun's sinking low Wind cries a tune Only drifters know Faded gold buckle won from five years ago And he's still out here chasing this dream called rodeo He says, I gotta win it all before I let it go Number on his back The crowd fades away as the gate

swings wide Eight seconds has ran through his veins since he was a child It's not about money, it's all about the ride He heard from old cowboys, years of running these roads.

Take its toll on you, leave you with only broken bones and nothing to show.

The air of the country is far freer from microbial life than that of cities, whilst open spaces, such as those afforded by the London parks, are paradises of purity compared with the streets and their attendant bacterial slums.

that it is no exaggeration to describe streets from the bacterial point of view as slums is to be gathered from the fact that much less than a thimbleful of that dust which is associated with the blustering days of march and the scorching pavements of summer may contain from nine hundred to one hundred and sixty millions of bacteria but investigators have not been content to merely quantitatively examine street dust in addition to estimating the numerical strength of these bacterial dust battalions the individual characteristics of their units have been exhaustively studied and the capacity for work beneficent or otherwise possessed by them has been carefully recorded the qualitative discrimination of the bacteria present in dust has resulted in the discovery of amongst other disease germs the consumption bacillus the lockjaw or tetanus bacillus bacteria associated with diphtheria typhoid fever pulmonary affections and various septic processes such is the appetizing menu which dust furnishes for our delectation There can be no doubt, therefore, that dust forms a very important distributing agent for microorganisms.

Dust particles, aided by the wind, being to bacteria what the modern motor car, with its benzene or electric current, is to the ambitious itinerant of the present day.

Attached to dust, bacteria get transmitted with the greatest facility from place to place, and hence the significance of their presence in dust.

Mention has been made of the fact that the germs of typhoid fever have been discovered in dust, and the belief in the possibility of this disease being spread by dust is gaining ground.

Meanwhile Umberto stayed in the studio.

Dust settled on his epaulettes.

A year went by.

Spiders ventured to spin their webs from his plumes to his moustachios.

The smell hit me immediately.

Dust.

Old paper.

Burnt electrical wiring.

For listening.

The room seemed to inhale.

Dust lifted from the floor.

Loose pages fluttered upwards.