The Brief Flight Home - Oct 9-14th, 2009

On Connecting

crazy black woman dancing in the
middle of the street
old fat woman struggling
to eat
New York City
b g from
o n
u i
n c
terminal
to
terminal
looking for a flight whose
number'
s changed.
the airport resort
eat sleep piss fuck and
BUY
Duty free
Tax free
would you like a rolex before
you go to your gate?
all meant to sedate
aid and
create a
happy people - docile
like puppies.
and\ / no circumstances
\under/
should you take a stance
or they'
tear up your ticket
throw you in the
dungeon
before you can sneer
and no one will know you'
re gone
just another body lost in
the throng of
mass
transit.

ba Da DA!
"Flight X leaving for X now
at gate X"

sorry, that'
s me, wish me
luck.


The Sentencing

Case: In
(what?)
we
trust.

Sentence: Over
5000 years; -
time
served.

Thoughts
The real question here is why are there so many military personnel in the airport.
I ain't sleepin' none.
crying children - worse than
child actors.
lots of sparrows in the airport.
officers of Homeland Security bless me after I sneeze. They're not so bad after all. Like the nice chit-chat of the U.S. Border guarders on road betwix't Canada and the U.S. of A. What a job - espcially compared to writer, recorder of thoughts, wordsmith, pen-jockey.
There's no happy ending.
Even in the darkness every colour can be found.
Stereotypes - cops talking about who should be Wonderwoman, "Linda Crawford was beautiful" - "The 70s was reliable, movies now are bad, it's all the money" - "theater is bad too. All like high school productions. Rent, Chicago, Spring Awakening." - "I will never see Wonderwoman." - "Los Angelese is a garbage city." - "Worse thing is, you need a car. Here, is crowded, but you no need a car." - "still most polluted city in united states." - "no diversity restaurants, all Mexican, Mexican, Mexican" - they are all Chicano officers.
Gonzo - accident and desperation.
There's a black woman over there eating fried chicken...Jesus, the stereotypes just keep on coming...Selah.
I will soon be encases in a giant tube in the sky...with no escape. The animals are out to get me and I'm not even drunk. Pity me, save me, gratify me...for I am the 21st Century Achilles - doing battle with the mind; this century's Foe of Man. I don['t like the look of that guy's prim-cut business suit - pinstripe though it is - and his redt tie and his slicked back, blonde Patrick Bateman hair. I don't know and therefore can't say what is it about air travel that makes me so bitter.
End of NY --> LA flight; look over to see the woman next to me had her phone on in her pocket the whole time - we could've spiralled off trail! She is cute in those ripped jeans though and now she's making a goddamn phone call inappropriately! But she's speaking...Slavic of some kind. Explains everything! The commies are coming to get us ALL! Is she a drug mule? Or a prostitute? She is always looking at messages on her phone.
Made connection to Sydney from LA with moments to spare - having seen my name on some 'cleared' list, I approached ahead of the line, and was given my boarding pass and now I wait.
FINALLY LANDING - to do it all again in 4 days. I'm the best goddamn friend there ever was.
DO YOU WANNA SIT ON A BROKEN SEAT?!
I hope they're worth it. Who? The person you're waiting for.
How long have you been gone?
4 days.

Also; couple on phone in airport. Clearly newly married couple on phone to their friend back home. They are returning from their honeymoon. The wife is speaking - it is a female friend for sure. I can hear her voice from over the speaker. They are laughing. Something about the sending of love, the phone is passed to the man. His face, his voice...all I can picture is that on the other end of the line the friend is saying, "When you get back, I am going to jump you like crazy...just you wait. Oooh, yeah...I'm so horny."And he just laughs it off while his wife sits there...