Air Sickness Poems | Examples

Durians In Flight

To gormandize upon the fungal billowing  
of its noisome mustiness,
beguiles many to munch upon its earthy reek.
A creamy white meatiness enchants taste buds 
to pillage pale fetid delights,
while a gluttonous well-being 
                          permeates through every orifice.

Before they were banned from overhead storage
Durians ruled the sky.
Air sickness or a stomach churning turbulence
were deemed more desirable than
than those choking emissions
wafting from their pulpy substance.

High above the Indian ocean 
passengers overcome by the funk 
demanded parachutes.
Some renounced their white privilege
or fell to their knees to pray for breathing masks
                               to drop.

Even when disembarked, cabs would not carry them
fearing the lingering grip of clammy odors.
While still in their departure lounges
hardened Limburger eaters grew pale,
trembling at the thought of flying unprotected 
from that most redolent of fruits,  
                                 the mighty all-pervading Durian.