Summertime Vacations

I only let the sun get me once and since I referred to myself

as tomato red I can’t hold it against them for using it repeatedly.

I didn’t sleep well, or remember to take my medicine all the time,

and I coated myself in bug spray-

The good stuff, the chemical spray can spray or the mosquitos

would have made me crazy.

And on the last day the dust was making me cough, and I’d

been too long without coffee, and

Other people’s children were pushing my limits.

But I’ll do it again next year, swearing I’ll remember the sunscreen

and to take my medicine and this time some citronella torches

and drink more coffee and other people’s children will probably

still make me crazy

But we all know these things are just how it goes sometimes

And since you want to go with me again,

I’ll go with you.