Travel fun

I've mastered the ways of sitting
How to think about nothing
How to sleep on my fist
Standing is the trouble--

"Your passport please"
"No, not the passport"
"Your ticket sir?"
"Your passport sir, for verification"
"Keep your shoes on!"
"Lift up your foot"
"Your other foot"
"Use the machines, not the line"
"Use the line"
"Wrong line. See stations 501-507"
"Are you carrying weapons?"

Nothing like a sidelong glance--
abrupt
discharge, to lodge itself in timid tissue
--flint, the better to winnow its way.

Nothing like a sidelong glance
to make one feel stark brazen.
Like a woman in a monastery.

--A Monastic Hermetress.

Bunsen Burner + Large Pot + Cheese n' Bread + Ben + Danielle + Derek + LiHe =
                           Fondue.

(Examples include: sleepy, angry, melancholy, manic, decadent, awkward, incompetent, pensive, nauseated, neurotic, brutal, cute, stupid, ostentatious, flippant... etc.)

--A Sated Hermit.

No Footholds.

There is no way to step without stepping on my stuff.
Unless you are me. I leap.
Sparing the strewn shoes,
The overflowing basket,
The still-packed suitcase
From the discomfort of stepping steps.


--A Bounding Hermit.