Nigerian lunch

Protracted visit arrears

Media Frenzy

As winter exhales

Airplanes hibernate like bears

On snow cave runways

Airline gate agents

Saint Peter to passengers

When flights are cancelled

On time departure

Season’s Hallucination

That’s why I stayed home

Eight dollar draft beer

Or an eight dollar hot dog

The math is easy

Flight landed in Rome

Luggage landed in Taiwan

Nero is fiddling

Fifty bucks round trip

Los Angeles to Springfield

Slow to book aw shit

Parking lot is full

Your flight departs in one hour

With or without you

Security lines

Cattle prods whips and tasers

No it’s not Walmart

Assigned a coach seat

Next to smoldering gonads

First class idiot

The flight is cancelled

Stranded in the terminal

Modern Alcatraz

Seat recliner broken

Infant wails in row across

Flight purgatory

Missed flight connection

Along with fifty others

Start standby roulette

Black out period

The airline’s way of saying

Take it or leave it

U S T S A

A l Q a e d a

S N A F U

Carry on luggage

No room in overhead bins

Results in crippling

Gotta go go go

Lavatory light still lit

Damn Nigerians

Seat is in Zone A

Must cross Zones B thru Q

More like Twilight Zone

Middle seat open

Oh no fat ass approaches

So much for comfort

Plane ventilation

Somebody’s yesterday’s lunch

Is circulating

Copyright 2009 Patrick Granfors