you go, i'll wait here

it's on my list, she says,
flipping through
a travel guide
to Indonesia. I want
to go there.
I want to live there
for a week or
two, not stay in a hotel
and be a tourist.
I hate that. I want to eat
their food,
listen to their music.
be enchanted by
their culture
and ways of life.
I want to be one with
them. those Indonesians.
doesn't that sound like fun,
she says.
me and you, in another
country,
expatriates for a week
or two?
some questions don't
deserve an answer.