this is a very bad idea, Mimi

my new love

interest, Mimi,

wants to go to a nudist

camp

for vacation.

i look at her as i sip

my coffee,

and say,

what?

what did you say?

i think we should experiment,

think outside

the box

and jazz our life

up a little,

let's go to a nudist camp

this summer.

there's one in Pennsylvania,

called,

Naked Lunch.

it looks like fun.

my mind is suddenly filled

with the image

of William S. Burroughs.

with clothes on,

thank God.

what about bugs, i say to her.

sunburn.

i see a hygiene problem

and besides that

are we in good enough shape

to be strolling

around in the buff?

no one cares,

she says.

there's fat people, skinny

people there.

no one cares.

but what's the point?

it's just being free and part

of nature.

we'd be like Adam and Eve,

before

they ate the apple.

what about we start slow,

i tell her,

maybe a topless beach

in Miami?

i really don't want to be

Buck naked in front 

Of strangers.

i'm quite shy like that.