
The Thursday ferry leaves Tuesday at
We ask for a sailboat / it’s headed west
We ask for a speedboat / this a devotedly
lethargic
community
We ask for a large boat / they’ve got several
choice dories
We ask for a dory / dories are less than ideal for
six-hour
rides on the
The Thursday ferry leaves Tuesday at
We ask for a jamboree / it’s two weeks away
We ask for good beer / then think optimistically
about
Budweiser
We ask for fresh fruit / there’s one pear and
abounding
scurvy
We ask for a campsite / it’s on a fucking mountain
We ask for firewood / there isn’t enough to build
a boat
The Thursday ferry leaves Tuesday at
We ask for store hours / “whenever it ain’t
closed,” we are
told
We ask for instant coffee / it tastes like rock
tumbler
smoothie
We ask for the size of the mountain / their
response is
incomprehensible
We ask for better instant coffee / evaporated milk
comes
highly recommended
We ask for public
internet
access / they charge by the kilobyte
We ask for
evaporated milk / our
coffee tastes like evaporated shit
The Thursday ferry
leaves
Tuesday at
We ask for rope /
they are
enthusiastic, thinking we might hang ourselves
We ask for the
prepackaged beef
and cheese sub / the best before date is scratched off
We ask for the
ideal hiking
trail for people like us / they point to the ocean
We ask for
cigarillos / they
refer to us amongst themselves as rich and/or gay
We ask for
especially dangerous
fireworks / this is a reasonable request
We ask when it will stop raining / they tell us
when it
starts snowing
We ask for paradise
/ it is
Tuesday at