Vacation

Another Creative Writing Warm Up. Today's was a stamp of some fat guy holding a bunch of cameras in a floral t-shirt.


"I need a vacation"
everyone says.
A week to get away
from their every day lives.
But why leave behind
everything you have
spend more money than you can afford
on pointless souveneirs
bought in a humid hotel
filled with annoying tourists.
Why go to "fun" places
and spend the whole day in line
waiting for something that will make you scream in terror.
Take pictures of so called "memories"
that in a hundred years
no one will care about.
They say vacations are relaxing
but I just think they're stressful.
Plane tickets, rental cars,
hotels, food, and things to do.
Why go through all that
when you could be at home
relaxing for real.
I don't need screaming children,
floral t-shirts
and pictures of fake smiles
to have fun and relax.
That's what books are for.