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You Have to Be so Much Better Than You Ever Thought
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

I spent one week every summer at Camp Tapico

for every year I was a Boy Scout


The camp felt like an entire separate country,

or as if the rest of the world had disappeared

and we were the only ones left alive


We traveled in packs

We rode our bikes everywhere


About ten or fifteen feet before we reached any destination,

I would yell, Dismount! and we would

swing our bodies over the frame in unison onto the left pedal

and coast to a halt


I felt like a grown up

(or how I imagined one must feel)

and I could mostly come and go as I pleased


One summer, sirens blared out over the camp P.A.

in a shrill and ugly tone with an infinite refrain

that carried for miles and miles


I had never heard that sound before



Our counselors were panicked and told us

to return to our campsites immediately


My friend Nate and I mounted our bikes and sprinted home

as branches fell all around us


It felt like we were the leads in a video game

and we were too caught up in it to understand we were in any real danger


When we got back, everyone was huddled under the mess tent,

except for Nate's brother and his friend,

who were stuck in a rowboat in the middle of Grass Lake

during the full brunt of the storm


The adults had to hold Nate back from going out after him

as the pair raced across the water like a glacier or a hawk


We watched from the shore and didn't feel the pouring rain

until long after they safely pulled in


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