you are not prepared to leave behind,
said the man behind the glass window
I gave him my money and took my ticket,
not understanding what he meant.
Eventually, we lose it all,
every charger cable
every airport bookstore read
every water bottle and travel mug,
even laptops left in Omaha,
never to be seen again.
He gestured to the store
that specialized in lost and abandoned items,
they used to get it all
now half of everything
gets blown to smithereens.
I sat in the padded arm chair,
one of a dozen in a row,
a hundred in the space,
and one of thousands in the concourse
and wondered how much I might lose this time
and whether the plane was a 737 max
or just an airbus, number unknown.
About anthonyuplandpoetwatkins
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born
in Jackson, The United States
August 04, 1959
gender
male
website
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genre
Poetry, Historical Fiction
influences
James M. Lancaster, Brenda Black White, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Al Filreis
member since
March 2011
About this author
Publishers of Better than Starbucks: betterthanstarbucks.org
There is little about me that isn't already available at Facebook or Linkedin, or countless other places.
Poet, writer, construction worker, salesman, truck driver, climber into the attics of total strangers, father and husband, and all around one of the luckiest men on the planet.
My luck continued with a win in the June Goodreads Newsletter Contest! What an honor!
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Additional Influences: Bob Dylan, William Faulkner, Barbara Kingsolver, Gloria Naylor, Eudora Welty