#2060 - wing and a prayer

 

2060

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21.viii.25

wing and a prayer

 

brace brace

or

kiss your arse goodbye

 

 

they say ‘put your own mask on first’

it will drop down

think Munch

help later

 

it’s different in business

a parachute in first

 

they say ‘remove your heels’

they say ‘keep calm’

take nothing with you for the afterlife

 

you mustn’t even e-smoke

there will be alarms

 

read the card

each subtly different

 

a poem for each

must make one’s own

 

flying’s like the old days

feet up and miles per hour

 

they say it’s the first twenty seconds airborne

and the last

 

it will be a kind of birth

from the tin womb no-zone

from the place out of time

from the catastrophe

 

take something from the perfume trolley

to mask the evil smell

 

vomit bag has a thousand uses

 

then slide

into the fiery furnace

skip clouds

into the icy sea

 

follow the lights along

note which way now

so’s to remember

 

it’s all on hold

 

oh what fun it all will be

 

what goes up must

my dear