In Flight
Before take off
Travelers on cell phones
voices
ricocheted
all the way back
to Seat 38E,
third-to-last row.
Overhead bins,
Slammed
Slammed again
Too stuffed to close,
No items to shift during flight,
Guaranteed.
Seat 38E.
Sandwiched
Between perpetually-whooshing
Rear- cabin toilets
Add to the symphony
Ceaseless engine noise,
The buzz and whirr magnified
Inside this fiberglass shell
Cough, cough, cough
Atchoo! Atchoo! Atchoo!
How many“bless yous”
Does a polite
traveler
murmur
Before
ducking and dodging,
hunting up her Vitamin C?
