How goes it?
Does your vacation involve an airport
with the problems that you like?
Chicken, beef, or vegetarian?
A scavenger hunt for an Airbnb key
in a six-digit combo lock,
like a low-level adventurer?
Inconspicuously following
your phone map
to a Vietnamese restaurant?
Learning more
about yourself
than the place itself.
Or are you on a mental holiday?
Staying up late,
then sleeping in
like a retired house cat,
listening to records
so you can buy more,
reading a book from your stack
so you can add five more,
ordering falafel and hummus
because it’s healthy
(and you’re restless):
exploring the territory
of unmapped whims.
Hope you are somewhere interesting—
or nowhere interesting at all.
Regardless,
find your afflatus
and remember to write.
~Your Laboring Self
Photo by Marco López on Unsplash
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