Airport feelings

[lilorphanannie]

Terminal
after the all too usual delays--
crowded runway at LGA
thunderstorms over ORD--
you arrive here at MEE and
I get the feeling
I get the feeling yet again
that I am but a connecting stop
a hub
some CLT or ATL or PIT
you travel through
not to
pausing only to change planes and
marking the time of your layover
marking--not spending--it
pacing my concourse
skimming my newsstands
bypassing my gift shops
so anxious for your connection to
some SFO or HNL or PAR
a final destination
which is and always has been
somewhere someone else

~Sam Holtzapple