@maliciouslycreative replied to your post “I sure do write about the ocean a lot for someone who lives in a…”

You have to suffer the desert all the time, why would you want to write about it? I personally never write about the frozen wasteland around here.

You underestimate just how many people around here write about the desert around here. Like, they romanticize the fuck out of it. Which, okay yeah, it’s pretty but it also sucks. Sunsets are gorgeous but the rest of the day? It’s dry, it’s hot until all of the sudden it’s cold as hell, there’s sand and dirt everywhere and everything is brown. Everything. The plants are brown. The dirt is brown. The houses are brown. 

There’s so much freaking local poetry about mesas and cacti and sunsets. It’s all lies. No one likes it here. 

The only time I write about the desert is to bitch about how much it sucks to live in one. I’m not a strong swimmer and I don’t know much about the ocean but I’d much rather wax poetic about that.