How to Be Happy Though Human by Kate Camp

Author:Kate Camp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
Published: 2020-07-28T14:51:43+00:00

Hamilton International Airport

New Zealand is the Saudi Arabia of milk,

said the taxi driver.

When I came back I just about kissed

the green grass.

He had driven trucks in America,

the whole place has got wheels

it takes twelve hours to drive across Texas.

In the back seat I was experiencing a top ten hangover,

had stumbled in the air bridge when boarding.

Oh, America, I said.

The Waikato was going past

its roadside grass

its bridges and signs and fences.

The thing is, he confided, experience.

Experience will always beat the young fullas.

In America New Zealand is like Fiji is to us.

The little house grew near. We passed the massive tree

with its dappled bark, we passed the KFC.

At the end of my street you could almost cry to see the trees

that reached across and touched in the middle

and the tiny lawn the size of a pair of sheets.

Here you go, he said, we happen to be a nation

that has carried out a lot of its history in sheds.

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