Charles Keatts
1 min readJan 15, 2021

mcdonalds in paradise

she was young. so was I, just less young. she was 19 or so.

She worked at a McDonalds in Nice or nearby, how did I meet her?

I was there with Simon, I was escaping myself, for a while.

and she took me up the hill on the back of her scooter and later that day

Simon and I hitchhiked to Cannes and drank a lot of Tequila.

we hitchhiked back, I picked up cigarette butts by the road.

a nice couple drove us back to Villeneuve-Loubet and I wandered all over

Charles Keatts

Essays, poetry, and art. Published novelist, memoir in process, new novel. I like being sober, trail running, climbing, and spending time with my daughter.