Get Out of Town!

Todd Lee
October 26, 2007

In Boston,

Evacuation Day,

March 17,

is a thinly-veiled ploy

to make St. Patrick’s Day

a recognized holiday.

The name “Evacuation Day”

makes sense to me.

Most of those days (and especially nights)

I stay inside, with the windows shut.

I may be paranoid,

but maybe just prudent.

It’s enough to think of the possibility

of acts of violence

against Asians, or other people

of color,

any random day

on the calendar.

Imagine hundreds

of white people in cars

on Get As Drunk As You Can Day,

hopped up on Guiness and Bud Light,

wicked shit-faced and

cruising the streets in Camaros,

looking for trouble

they call “fun”.

Seems to me

on that day

the odds for us

get measurably worse.

On that day,

it only makes sense

to lay low,

or get out of town.