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!
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Author:
Alfred Peyer (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: January 2nd, 2018 03:58
- Comment from author about the poem: Wrote this on my phone with my thumbs in midair. Not the best, but I was kind of upset. They took me out to check the Fondue in my carry on for bomb residue! Welcome to the beautiful world of traveling!
- Category: Reflection
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Comments7
It will be ingested bombs soon if they don't already exist. I can remember way back when ladies used to dress up to go to the airport and sashay around - now they are all scruffs - where on earth do they buy their clothes? Like you I find no fun in travel any more and we are spending more time travelling around the UK. Mind you the idea of travelling naked has a sort of naughty appeal.
Thank you Michael, the naked and drugged part was more meant as a metaphor!
Welcome to the modern world where trust no longer exists and everyone is perceived as a rebel or activist.
What ever happened to make love not war?
Thanks Goldfinch! We are children of the 60's, that glorious time of make love not war! Unfortunately it did not last!
I feel your frustrations Fred , but if we have to travel that’s how it is
Thanks WL, agree with you. I remember the real food on planes, hanging out with the flight attendants, smoking, walking around. All gone....
Oh dear, having fun there?!
Thanks orchi! Once I was in the plane, it was good. But getting there was the hassle!
Glad I got my traveling in before all this madness. I find it no longer worth the hassle. You capture it well in this one, Fred! The terrorists have won.
Thanks Louis, believe me, if my kids and grandkids would not be living in CA, I would much rather just drive to the beach right here.
You sum it all up well here Fred - we have no inkling of what respect really means. But naked - - - ooooh no !!!
Thank you Fay! The naked and drugged part was meant as a metaphor.
trying to fly somewhere nice and a bloody bomb goes off. just typical. well said though, Fred,
Thanks Kevin, well the purpose of all that hoopla at the airports is NOT to have bomb go off! The problem is that ONE person tried to smuggle a bomb in a shoe and now MILLIONS of people have to take their shoes off!
oh dear!
Kevin, have to get back to you. Your 'oh dear!' comment just made my day!!!
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