20 ביולי 2014

Ruminations in a Turkish Airport

 
January 5th, 2014

In transit
waiting to go there from here
mind somewhere
not anywhere
real.

A tall hunk of Turk
shakes a bottle of whipped cream
slowly, surely swirls on top of my
grande espresso frappaccino
that was real.

YvesSaintLaurent
adorns an Arab princess
sitting cross-legged beside me
playing drop berry on her blackberry,
hands her daughter a pink barbie,
Ou cherrie!
I've just come from Paris.

At Burger King I wonder
how the megabillion pompous CEO
makes way in Texas
to outdo MacDonald's internaciónal
is like
big hairy balls.
How atrocious.

Mind wanders while
my hand holds a ticket
fingers touch a picture with an identity
in a booklet stamped with certainty
port-date-signature

That picture was me
for only a moment in time
the identity only applies sometimes
when convenient or not.