692 : All right, good night.

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #155) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

barrier, detail, diamond, pleat, power, strap,

swing, suspend, tough, unit, waterfall, zip

All right, good night.

We don’t know

We will probably

Never know.

But we can imagine the details.

First Class, all diamonds, 

Pinstripes, pleats and fur.

They get the metal cutlery

And fine tablecloths.

Their pearls swing as they walk.

Then there is business class,

The people with real power,

Good cutlery too.

But a leaning to the practical

Frugal with their money

But not wanting to tough it out

In the economy class battlers

Back behind the curtain barriers.

And there, in economy,

People sit, packed in,

Elbows pulled to their sides,

Knees against the seat in front,

Tables down, with a tray of 

Soft inoffensive pap,

Befitting a plastic fork,

Watching equally soft,

Inoffensive pap,

On the video unit

In the seat in front.

Common to all of these

Diverse peoples

Is a shared destiny.

They waited together,

Albeit in different lounges,

The boarded together,

Albeit by different doors,

And now, strapped into seats

In a large metal box

Suspended in the sky,

They travel together.

After a fashion.

In a control tower

A message is received

Acknowledged and then

The channel goes dead.

Just a loud angry hiss

Like a waterfall

In a jungle,

A rushing sound,

Going nowhere.

Then nothing.

Zip.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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