That We Wish
Janet Kuypers
There are so many times
I wish I had that - well,
that wish to get here. All
my life I have had the
high school and all of
the other useless dronings
and the high school proms
and I’ve always thought
I was good enough and it
was at those times when someone
would remind me that I might be
wrong because it was then that
someone else would always come
along and cover me with their hair
and their better clothes and
their pulitzer prizes. Wow.
I must really need all that
But you know what I mean,
that some people always seemed
to have the better cars
with the nice red stripe
or maybe it was better
shoes or better clothes
or a better boyfriend.
Well, you get what I’m
talking about, even if you’ve
never directly experienced it
or anything. I mean,
doesn’t it just suck how
sometimes people can be
the biggest jerks in their
day to day life to people
they don’t even know and haven’t
even met before. I mean, isn’t
it funny how people can
sometimes be jerks, and
invariably they are the ones
who always end up with
the money from the parents
or they get married to
people who have money
and most of their life is
spent in this plush
life of heaven?
And then there’s someone like
you or me, someone who has
always tried to do good
and always done the best they
could to help other people, and
sometime there’s a person
like you or me
(and I just say
you or me, not because I’m
trying to pin anything on either
one of us, or anything like that)
but you know, some-
times the average type of
person tries to do real good but
they never have enough money or
they never have the right
clothes or the right kind of car
and that list of what-ifs could
probably go on and on, but I
think you get the idea.
I mean, did some person’s
parents have bas luck with
the stocks, or did somebody
think they were doing the right
thing for their family but just
had to deal with a bad flood,
or an equally irritating
desert summer. I guess
some people just have a
run of bad luck and there
is one kid who tries to
make it all better but
just can’t quite do it.
I don’t know what anyone’s
reason could be for misreading
the news of the future
about how computer industry
will make a lot of money
for the next thirty years. I
guess all of us are faced with
choices all of our lives,
and it’s only the combination
of all the right choice
and all the right decisions
that make a difference in
anyone’s good or bad outcome.
I don’t know, maybe it’s
just how you were raised that
will show what you look at and
what you need and what you
want and how much you’re
willing to spend for it
that makes all the difference.
