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Common Sense Takes Flight

COMMON SENSE TAKES FLIGHT Dredged between river beds Screams of woe and cellphones Clawed by sticks and stones Floating upriver Glasses unhinged Shirt around throat like a poisonous snake Drowning in fate Kicking up each primordial footprint Given over to the bumpy road Sacrificed to the precarious wings of the sky It says: you shall not fly, don’t even try They drag his comatose battered body down the parishioner’s aisles Each passenger crosses himself They cry out, “My God! What is happening?!” Vindication crosses its legs. Kim Rodrigues ©2017

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Robert Amure

Date: 4/19/2017 4:55:00 AM

Subtle, succinct, yet SO powerful!!! (Love the Title!).

Chris Green

Date: 4/13/2017 11:01:00 AM

That certainly is a creative way to address what seems to be all over the net. Nice one Kim.

Chris Green
Date: 4/13/2017 11:57:00 AM

This happens more than anyone realizes, not the kicking and screaming and being dragged off of a plane, but over booked airlines. It is definitely wrong, that's like paying for your groceries ahead of time and them finding out the store doesn't have what you paid for and they tell you tough, get out. It is sad.

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 4/13/2017 11:04:00 AM

Thank you, Chris! I recently went to Chicago and Delta was overbooked. I cannot even imagine already being on the flight and getting kicked off! Horrifying! What if you had an emergency you were trying to get to. This should not happen to passengers that have already boarded!!