He wrote to sail away 30,000 puffs of air Unattached frame or basis Pleas of comfort, salient cheer
Food, drink, menus naming chefs Recycle movies, swiveling baby screens Reclined outsize seat, business classed Pillows, blankets, cookie crumbs dans l’air
Metal reinforced door to cockpit Stewardess, sparing in self-defense Sweating rubber bullets with the rest
Citizens flash lapel flags Recovered hollowed lives Falling Hollywood stampedes
Shoes in trays stuff x-ray machines Check their cheeks, few paces each to each Hand-held metal detected Warning buzzers, chirps, beeps Flashing lights snaking floors
Young men in full fatigues Porting assault rifles laser beaconed, dog sniffed Witness random searches As weaker links dissolve
To fraternity, equality The memory of senseless dead Imploded at the Wall Since Liberty’s wailing call A nation better follow Its solumn duty now.
1-18-02 UA147 Chicago to San Francisco
Revised: 9-11-2011 Bordeaux-Lac, France