NO, NO: SEATTLE TO LONDON\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (response to prompt 15)<\/p>\n
Wherever else would we be asked<\/p>\n
to sleep within two inches \u2013 maybe less \u2013<\/p>\n
of someone we’d just met? These flights aren’t<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
called long haul <\/em>for nothing.\u00a0 They try<\/p>\n the patience, even pre-Covid.<\/p>\n Trying to hide beneath a thin blanket,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n praying I sleep, praying I won’t<\/p>\n because I don’t know you, and you’re seated<\/p>\n touching me, head tilted, as if you’re my partner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don’t make me sit in the middle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seattle to London, over the pole \u2013 the<\/p>\n shortest route possible.\u00a0 Ten long hours<\/p>\n with your arm resting closely,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n limply by mine, as if I knew you.<\/p>\n I brought my own blanket onto this plane,<\/p>\n headphones, ear plugs, even a neck pillow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Call me cranky, call me crazy privilege girl<\/p>\n but we’ve never met, and I’m sure I don’t<\/p>\n want to sleep crushed close to you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don’t make me sit in the middle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NO, NO: SEATTLE TO LONDON\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (response to prompt 15) Wherever else would we be asked to sleep within two inches \u2013 maybe less \u2013 of someone we’d just met? These flights aren’t called long haul for nothing.\u00a0 They try the patience, even pre-Covid….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76979,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73002\/revisions\/76979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}