WHY WE CRY ON PLANES
Barred from our devices
It’s painfully apparent—
The world goes on without us.
Inhaling the stale air
Of many moods,
Our freedom to choose
Clooney or Witherspoon,
I bear the breakneck interval
Silently chanting
Cancun, Cancun, Cancun.
Author’s Bio
ANDY MCGUIRE releases music under the alias John Alice. His poems have appeared in Arc, Riddle Fence, CV2, and Hazlitt.