This Poem was Submitted By: Terry Crane On Date: 2001-06-15 14:31:24 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Terminal 3 - 19 hours to go

The company of strangers is confining Elbow to elbow of unsmiling beings Lazy elevators reeking with urgency  Somewhere to go   -   suspended in space Everything here is stained     Caramel juice threading down walls  Tributaries of tar  Mingle with the sweat of traveling Babies in the smoking lounge Hazed and fragmented - Swaddled in cloaks of nicotine  Fussing at the absence of oxygen In longing I miss no one - really Instead - I miss the material: my couch   my bed   my holy space of silent In longing - solitude transforms desire Nothing is what I need  - not what I want  Perpetually in love with each star  in a misunderstanding - again (please place suggestions here) My hat smells strange   Laid as a pillow in too many places The monitor advises me to wait  more Here - with the babies - in the smoking lounge. Small pink lungs - blissful and unaware  Of their parents blind maliciousness (yawn) "Now boarding gate 63" - again

Copyright © June 2001 Terry Crane

Additional Notes:
I started this a couple months ago at Heathrow, and left the original draft in a suggestion box there. The puncuation and free verse I chose on purpose to give the reader a sense of suspension. Don't you just love airports?


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