Floating serenely above the clouds
Enjoying a Mai Tai, watching
Hula Girls on the screen, listening
to slack key guitar virtuosos
forgetting the world left behind
the airport world of waiting in line
of submitting to body searches
of overpriced bad food and
watered down drinks
and ill-tempered fellow travelers
of weirdos trying to kill us
with bombs in shoes or water bottles
prompting new laws that will soon
force us to fly naked and drugged
docile in our nakedness
stripped of dignity and mind
but not carrying any bombs!