Getting Ready to Go Somewhere Else
I'm good at going
but not at getting ready
if I had only black shoes
choosing shoes
instead of thinking yellow for California
or silver I don't know what color California is
or what color I would like to be
what light looks like and the rooms where we'll sit
and of course I know this only matters to me
in second grade my family went to visit my grandmother
in Los Angeles
I wanted to wear red shoes then
on the plane to California maybe for reasons
of history I should wear red shoes now.