Flying to Asia
We pulled window
covers tight but
sun followed us
all the way, sun
always there behind
dark squares,
filling that black tube
with blinding
white, outside in like
a hull breach in orbit
rotating day drinking in,
day drinking out,
Bud Light in in inefficient little cans,
out outside but
sun and new Bud would
be there and we knew
the bald flight attendant
would take our empty
cans and toss them tumbling
into yawing wastebaskets away,
and that we could sleep it off
and land in day,
cans emptied and
light clapped out,
ejected short of Asia,
burned out over
a ridiculous whistling
garbage gyre.
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