Vacations

What do people do for vacations
who live by mountains and lakes?
Do they go to the neon-glazed
avenues of the city to stand on
street corners, sniff the ozone
from diesel trucks, listen to the
warble of traffic, eat the billionth
chain hamburger, go to a western
movie and see real imitation Indians
and cowboys, not like those at home?
While their city cousins run to the
mountains, set fire to the forests,
throw beer cans on the banks of streams,
clog the roads with cars and motorcycles,
spread refuse in any yard and park
knowing this is a free country where
all men are equal in the amount of litter
they can distribute.