Abandoned Villas in Sunny Places

Somewhere in the 1980’s

I'm sitting in an abandoned villa

Waiting for someone

To come pick me up

I'm stranded

And I'm stranded

In a very 1980’s kind of way

Where, uh, you really do feel

Like you’re...

...Up a creek, you know?

Because I didn’t have a cell phone

I didn’t have any contact

With anybody

In the outside world

I’m just sitting in this abandoned villa

Going—

Okay, well

Somebody’s gotta find me

Eventually

But, like, not really sure

That was actually

Going to happen

And yet

At the same time

Even though

I was dealing

With a lot of anxiety in my life

Which was the reason

I was in this abandoned villa

On this trip

This vacation

That I really needed to go on

But also

Didn’t want to go on--

I’m having a hard time

Actually summoning that anxiety

To give me a kick in the ass

And make me come up

With some kind of solution

Because—

It’s sunny

Like, it’s really sunny out

And there’s the ocean

And there’s sand

And all this pretty, uh

Scenery

And so

My brain is like—

You’re fine

I mean, part of my brain thinks that

The other part is like—

Your stupid friends

Took off and left you

In two separate cars

Because one probably thought

You were with the other

And vice versa

But, again, it’s like—

Hard to panic

Because it’s just so pretty there

That’s, like, the one thing

About abandoned villas

In sunny places

It’s really hard

To panic

There

And believe me

I tried

I had this moment

Where I pictured

Me

Talking to you

Right now

I’m not kidding

You

You you

Not, like

A general ‘you’

But actually ‘you’

It was crazy

I pictured it

And that’s when I realized

That this

This right now

Was going to happen

That I wasn’t going to die

In some abandoned villa

That I was going to make it out

And live this long

And not-that-interesting life

And that’s what made me panic

Not the thought of dying

Or abandonment

Or anything

The thought of survival

That’s what scared

The hell out of me

Two hours later

My friends showed up

At the hotel we were all staying at

Realized what happened

And turned right around

And I was just sitting on the sand

Looking at the ocean

Trying to enjoy, you know

That moment

Because—

I knew it wouldn’t last

I knew that being stranded there

Wasn’t really my problem

It was a problem

But it wasn’t, like

The problem

Or even one of

The problems

My friends walked up to me

And I was crying

And they were like—

It’s okay

We’re here

We’re here now

You’re fine

We came back for you

And I looked at them like—

Why?

Why?

Why did you do that?

And they didn’t understand

I don’t think even I understood

I still don’t

I still…

I still really
Don’t