Kim Rodrigues Poet Free verse

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 April 19, 2017 at 4:55 AM Subtle, succinct, yet SO powerful!!! (Love the Title!).

Chris Green April 13, 2017 at 11:01 AM That certainly is a creative way to address what seems to be all over the net. Nice one Kim. Chris Green April 13, 2017 at 11:57 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 April 13, 2017 at 11:04 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!!