Absence of Water

Georgia walks to the water to remind herself that she's doing OK. It is a short distance, a quick pick-me-up. Some people are without water, they've never even seen it. She at least hopes this to be true. Perhaps that's part of the problem. It seems she's found a place where the good in her life is only defined by the bad in others'. It is the absence of water. But perhaps this is a better way to be thankful. Georgia is privileged in many ways and she hates that word, hates admitting it. She can see the water there and knows she is more than OK. Georgia pays her bills. Georgia lives by three grocery stores. Georgia's been out of the country, not for years, but she's been abroad. Georgia walks home at night and never hears a gun. She walks to the water to remind her of these things. But sometimes her thoughts, through no fault of her own, turn to drowning. They even turning to drowning now. Some people, she thinks, could never drown themselves.