One Summer: California
Janet Kuypers
1/22/24
I know we had our differences,
but I was looking forward to seeing you,
seeing southern California — the stores,
the glamour, the beaches, the commercialism.
I even brought a nice dress for the decadence I’d face,
but after picking me up at the airport,
you had to cart me away with your religious troops
to the wilderness, leaving me at a campsite
while you went off to church. And I sat there for days,
watching us, watching us become bloodthirsty,
we were trying to hurt each other,
we were like animals. You weren’t playing fair,
doing that to me when I had no way to defend myself,
when I made the effort to fly across the country
to see you. And this was my thanks.
But at least I got to see the redwood forests.
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