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Upgrade
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is this maturity?

 

Upgrade
 
          The air is soft  
          in Phoenix (PHX)  
          at 4:00 PM 
          and I remember  
          disembarking  
          years ago, (SFO), 
          into the same soft air 
 
          when trips did not  
          mean business class. 
          I thought it was the      
          San Francisco magic  
          "Flowers in your hair"   
          not just the moment: 
          afternoon, spring. 
 
          Memories and plans  
          can fix as one. 
          What I expected, 
          what we intended  
          unless the intention,  
          the plan--was all,      
          always, only mine. 
 
          The adrenaline    
          doesn't change at 
          takeoff or landing,  
          now at McCarran 
          (LAS) where at first  
          the Strip is distant  
          and fools the eye:  
 
          casinos built to  
          human scale but 
          taxi closer and 
          Mandalay Bay looms  
          a triumph of the 
          human will, higher  
          than the mountains. 
 
          Spinoza wrote this: 
          if you don't care for  
          others, in time you'll 
          hurt yourself. But 
          I gave up philosophy  
          after college, like  
          binge drinking -- or  
 
          was it art left behind?  
          The cultivation of   
          taste infringes on 
          someone's freedom 
          and at these heights,  
          a voice tells me to 
                              secure mine first 
                              before assisting 
                              those in need. 
 
 

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 10, 2012
Reminders of Panhandle Park and flights into San Francisco and Phoenix with hot and cold air conditioning. I read Spinoza in college, too. But I have forgotten everything he may have taught me in the course of time. Interesting poem that I haven't a clue as to its point except maybe the title. But I can't see how going to lost wages equates with maturity.'

Ron

Reviewed by Paul Judges
Reviewed on May 10, 2012
Good work, Diane - well conveyed.


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