around here

it's a day

I don't know

you

I didn't recognize

you

I thought you were

a tourist

I'm giving a guided

tour

do you have

a world

to write

about

while you are

here

I thought that first

we'd stop

to get

flowers

the year is 1967

before

school

I'll do the chores

go to colleges

and ask what they think

of my writing

does it hold

no

I know all about that world

tour what's new with you

maybe 

the day isn't long enough

to take that vacation

Author's Note

the world
is like