Newbury Park

There is a place closer than you think. A place where you might see a black person sometimes. A place where there's ONE FUCKING MCDONALD'S. A place where you can't let small animals out at night because they WILL die. A place where children never get shot, but you kind of want to see them get shot. A place that sometimes looks like a rancid dump or a rich white Republican man's playground; and never in between. A place where my school once went on lockdown because there was a stray dog on campus. A place where sixty degrees Fahrenheit is too cold to go outside. A place where the criminally insane were released onto the streets one day and now you can't go outside alone past 11 PM. And that place, is a little town we like to call: Newbury Park. The other day I saw a seagull kill and begin to eat a rat until a raccoon killed the seagull and ate it. Newbury Park.