Trying to find a place to park
once you’re finally here
just to get in and be confronted with
large congregations of people
lining up all over the place
to drink to sit to eat
to go to the bathroom
at sporting events, concerts
amusement parks
gathering, grazing, gawking
at each other
Yeah, I like to watch them too
people are stories
walking by you
but to immerse myself in
such a zoo of humanity
and even pay to do so
to me is insane.
So you go ahead
I’ll be in the field
lying beneath a tree
with a book in my lap
and only the song birds
for company
loving every minute of it.
hernanjmonzon.com 
but are we not social creatures,
by nature,
by design?
are we not a collective expression?
who am I to talk,
I will pick a tree near you,
though not near enough
to interrupt
your solitude.
those masses bother me as well,
bordering on obscene,
infested.
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Love this. Thank you. It is nice to meet a kindred spirit.
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I love this. I am the exact same way!! No one understands it that I know, though. Give me a book, a shade tree, and a gentle breeze….I am the happiest person on the planet. This was a great post! Thank you! Skye
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Yes, I forgot the gentle breeze. Perfect! Thanks so much for your feedback. I am glad that you liked it!
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i’ll be in the field as well,
singing betty davis at the top of my lungs
frightening everyone around me
like a proper, ginger madman does.
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There is never any rest or peace around you, Vickers (kill you with my mind soon).
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(collapses and starts to spit out lines from Blade Runner and Event Horizon)
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hi, i’ve nominated you for an award 🙂
https://sidesho37.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/liebster-and-family-awards/
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Thank you so much for thinking of me! I am happy to have made your list.
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no worries bud, am lookin forward to your eleven answers 🙂
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I like watching people to…just not in the middle of them :). I likes!
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That is pretty much all that I do when I’m at a large venue of any kind. I actually pay more attention to the people around me than what it is that I was there to see or do in the first place.
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