Born in Boring, Oregon, he dreamt for decades

Of Celebration, Florida, but after moving there,

He soon returned to Boring, Oregon because

Celebration, he realized, wasn’t all that.
Somebody ought to establish a writers’ colony

At Cape Disappointment, Washington. Corn dogs

For breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night snack.
Spending her entire life in Sweet Home, Oregon,

She never visited Vida, just 57 miles away,

An hour and eighteen minutes driving, if

You’re not too eager for the end. “I’ve heard

About that place,” she said to her husband,

Her fork stuck in the mashed potato, her face 
Worn and pleading. “I wouldn’t fuss over it, Midge.

We ain’t never going there.” Near Ashland,

There’s the Dead Indian Memorial Highway.

After death, you can be in Celebration and

Boring at the same time. Deceased, you can

Absolutely be nowhere all the damn time.