eatbees.com: radiant days artificial mesa  new york city, 1989 http://www.eatbees.com/rad/artificialmesa.html

They came down the valley walls into a vast amphitheater of stone. At the bottom of the bowl was a river which ran an alarming blue amid red rocks. The lizards had come out to sun themselves, and a sweaty rock band played silent instruments atop a plaster-and-mesh artificial mesa. Gesturing to this, he turned to her and said sneeringly, "Of everything in this valley, what doesn't belong?" "You," she replied, pulling away from him. She went to sit down on a rock.

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