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# Best Place on Earth
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/best-place-on-earth/
- Published: 2024-01-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Still looking.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Still looking.

That's what I tell people  
when they ask me: where do  
you want to retire?

Oh, there's a perfect place.  
I can see it as clear as I  
can see myself in the mirror.

High up on a granite cliff  
overlooking the Pacific  
as it fights to claim its  
piece of the American Dream.

That's where I'd like to  
retire. Right there, where  
the eternal sunshine lights  
up the angry, futile spray of the  
waves, and the bracing wind  
fills your nostrils with the scent  
of salt and iodine as you sip  
your coffee, and you say

dammit, but I've made it,  
I've made it to the best  
place on Earth, and the stirrings  
of the planet's crust way  
down below may be a  
warning sign, but you can  
ignore it, because there's  
still time. There's still  
time.

Isn't there?