alaskan

I took off my shoes
at the security checkpoint
realizing how funny this really was
wanting the plane to be safe
yet knowing that my pen
could be a deadly weapon.

It was all good,
especially when
I promised them
I wouldnt write
any magnum opus
or anything.

and if I did, I’d surely
say it was written
on American
or El-Al or something,

so they wouldn’t be liable.

they reminded me that the
First Amendment is inapplicable
on private property, and I nodded,
as it went in one ear
and out the other

they seemed
to notice my indescretion
and took my pen away.

yet little did they know
as I had one hiding,
in that shoe,
that they hadn’t noticed,
and got it thru.



©2002 by Yosh