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I’m in a first class airplane seat
the seats are roomier
and I got a full meal
I’m going to Florida now
and I’m sitting here in first class
I was a little kid
and now I remember
and I remember being so little
I remember flying to Vegas
once we took a small flight
I’m flying in an airplane now
and now I’m flying to Florida
so now I sit in this big airplane seat
it’s a wondrous thing
but right now, all I’m filled with
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Soaring So High
Janet Kuypers, 09/01/06 #4
flying to see my family now
and embroidered on the fake leather
on the seat in front of me, it reads
FASTEN SEAT BELTS WHILE SEATED
while on the flight
and the flight attendants
were very attentive
to see my family there
because my mother just died there
only about twenty seven hours ago
with these embroidered seats
with the full courses and friendly service
reminding me of when
we first went to Florida
thirty years ago
so the seats were big
and back in the day
they always fed you meals in the sky
and the stewardesses were
that much more attentive
my first trip to Florida
where at Disney World I was afraid
to go into the dark tunnel for
“It’s a Small World”
and I was afraid to go
into the dark room
for the “Space Tunnel”
roller coaster ride
so they sat me with dad
so I’d be too afraid to cry
on our first trip to Florida
that I saw mom and dad
watching Connors and McEnroe
play tennis on tv
and I thought Connors was President Carter
with my parents and my sister
when mom told me to sit by dad
so, like my construction worker father
I could marvel at all of the concrete
at Hoover Dam Below
across Florida
to the town my parents now live in
I don’t know, a DC 10, a DC 3
and we actually shared a long bench
for our seats for our flight
to where they’d one day call home
and it makes me think
of flying with my parents
to meet my sisters, to see my father
because my mother has passed
look out the window
at the clouds below
getting so far
soaring so high
are memories of flights with my mother
when we were soaring so high
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