liesl

do you think there are places in the world
that are still perfect?
where maybe the trees are very old,
or the species are very new,
and the weather is always what it should be?
i think sometimes that
every beach in the world has been polluted,
you know?
that every jungle is half-corroded
with our desires for coconuts and diamonds.
i just want one perfect place
left for us, where
we could take a vacation, you know?
go someplace quiet, out-of-the-way, isolated,
maybe there's a beach but
definitely a porch or a balcony or a widow's walk
where we can curl up and be lonely.
do places like that still exist?