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GAME PLAN
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BINGEWATCHING bOJACK hORSEMAN
It’s after 1:00 AM
and I’m sitting on a wooden bench
outside the airport.
It’s a rainy, drizzly night
but surprisingly not stifling;
an occasional pleasant, cool breeze
There’s a stray cat roaming about
the departure and arrival area.
He’s wet and makes
an unsuccessful bid to break it.
He meows at me for sympathy
but I have no response
and nothing to give.
I have 7 hours before flying.
It would appear
that neither one of us
put a lick of quality thought
into our game plan tonight.
We Should Name Our Airports After Poets
It was the most appropo thing to do. :)
Walt Whitman airport in
Walt Whitman airport in Philadelphia. Edgar Allen Poe's name can take over BWI. Maybe let Allen Ginsberg get Newark International. We'll give Maya Angelou the airport in St. Louis and Diane DiPrima the airport in San Francisco. Great thinking.
Thanks for the warmth
Thank you for letting me think about a warm place and thinking and wondering curiously what brought you to an airport at 1 am? Thats the intrigue of this poem that had to be written
Thanks
thanks for reading and
thanks for reading and commenting. I had limited transportation options to get to the airport for an early morning flight due to various circumstances. It would have been difficult to get a cab at 3 or 4 in the morning and I was starting from a significant distance. I'm used to international airports that are usually open 24 hours and often even have a place to get a donut and coffee. But you live and learn. I'd like to think that this circumstance won't arise again but we all know it will.
Yes
I told a friend I’d pick him up from the airport but timing with a Christmas party was going to either make him wait or come to the party and meet all my family. He said I can entertain myself at the airport thinking like you and abject against the horror of meeting my grown children and ex husband lol. He ended up at the party instead of a cold bench.