Atlantic City

Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska (1982)

I've been looking for a job but it's hard to find

Out here there's just winners and losers

and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line

Well I'm tired of coming out on the losing end

So honey last night I met this man

and I'm gonna do a little favor for him

Everything dies, baby that's a fact

Maybe everything that dies someday comes back

Put your makeup on,

fix your hair up pretty

And meet me tonight

in Atlantic City.

Madeline Rupard paints the sacred and mundane. This work is part of her On the run again series. Her new book, Passages, was released last year from Slow Worm Press.