vacation angst blog redo

i didn't go

sitting in the terminal
empty as a ghost town
7:30 and still an hour to wait

the daylong misery just not letting up
facing an exhausting trip

with tiny planes on both hops
in the rain
on 9/11


i realized
as is taught in the nvc class
on stepping out of the vortex of submission

i have a choice in the matter

i can book a better flight
some time in the fall

when i don't have to feel resentful
about the travel plans
and dis the folks on the blog out of frustration

who by the way were very understanding


i was thinking there might eventually turn up
some purpose to this whole fiasco

and learning that i have choices
like going dancing to the funk band tonight instead

and feeling the immediate lightness
of the return of a saner autonomy

just might qualify