Ode to the Air Traffic Controller

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Ode to the Air Traffic Controller

  by Joshua Beckman

Ode to the Air Traffic Controller

  Melbourne, Perth, Darwin, Townsville,

  Belém, Durban, Lima, Xai-Xai planes

  with wingspans big as high schools

  eight hundred nine hundred tons a piece

  gone like pollen, cumulus cirrus

  altostratus nimbostratus people getting skinny

  just trying to lose weight and the sky

  the biggest thing anyone ever thought of

  Acceptance, Vancouver, Tehran, Maui

  school children balloons light blue nothing

  one goes away not forever, in fact

  most people, at least if you are flying

  Delta, come down in Salt Lake City

  Fairbanks, Kobe, Aukland, Anchorage

  from Cleveland a hundred Hawaii-bound Germans

  are coming in low, not to say too low

  just low pull up Amsterdam pull up Miami

  historically a very high-strung bunch

  smokers eaters tiny planes must circle

  we have bigger problems on our hands

  New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris

  the boy who has been ignoring dinner

  throws thirteen paper planes out the window

  does it look like this? Tashkent, Nome, Rio,

  Hobart, yes yes it looks just like that

  now do your homework Capetown Capetown

  lots of rain good on one good on two

  go three go four go five go six

  Mau, Brak, Zella, Ghat, an African parade

  good on two good on three

  please speak English please speak English

  good on five good on six gentlemen:

  the world will let us down many times

  but it will never run out of coffee

  hooray! for Lagos, Accra, Freetown, Dakar

  your son is on the telephone the Germans

  landed safely Seattle off to Istanbul

  tiny planes please circle oh tiny planes

  do please please circle

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