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# Paradise
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/paradise/
- Published: 2024-07-01T17:49:20.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-01T17:49:20.000Z
- Description: I’m in a cabana on a beach in Cancún looking Upon light-blue water so warm you can walk Right in, no need to adjust to the temperature.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

I’m in a cabana on a beach in Cancún looking  
upon light-blue water so warm you can walk  
right in, no need to adjust to the temperature.

And isn’t this the dream? The thing for which  
we work, the reason for college, grad school,  
Marriage, family, a job—to afford an $800 / night

all-inclusive resort? To stretch out in the heat  
Without a trouble in the world, your son forming  
perhaps those first memories he’ll look back on

in later life, full of melancholy for childhood, for  
learning to swim with his grandparents whose  
love he will cherish long after they have passed?

Trouble is, the gears of my worrying mind won’t  
stop, even here. I know why the sea is 84 degrees,  
the economics of everything-included. I wonder

what the Yucatán Jays make of me, circling above  
like Gods surveying the fallen world they birthed.  
Do they demand a sacrifice for these gifts so

unjustly bestowed? What use are they to me, or I  
to them, if I do not swim out beyond the pier until I am  
become horizon, no less flawed for being unreachable?