Of A Book & A Box

          
            
             
             
             
In the United States;           
Windsor Locks            
situated alongside            
Connecticut river            
is the site of            
Bradley International Airport,            
serving the Greater Hartford-Springfield            
region, boasting a square            
kilometer of water            
complimenting 25 squares            
of land            
hosting            
New England Air Museum            
             
The irony              
a history of aerospace              
along side the boarding dock            
of my little brown box            
brings smiles            
             
Newark, celebrates            
age, as one of the oldest cities            
it parties with population            
as 320 thousand odd              
New Jersey residents            
fill census forms and              
port achievements            
suburban life,              
complimented with            
bustling urban districts            
             
The sarcasm              
in my breath              
thinks of       
Cathedral Basilica Of The Sacred Heart              
with its gold            
with its large stained glass            
with its steeples            
I wonder the magnitude              
of prayer           
a rat, would have heard there            
             
my brown box            
doesn't have time for prayer            
visiting Queens  
in the business and retail            
sectors of Jamaica            
             
I wonder if it stops              
to check time            
on the Sidewalk Clock            
in Jamaica Avenue            
             
I wonder if it              
shimmy shakes              
over    
Jamaican Performing            
Arts Center            
                
The irony            
of a Arts Center            
being located              
in the First Reformed Dutch Church            
             
As airlines stop for over night              
blankets on steel airport chairs                 
I smile at the largest population            
in the United Arab Emirates            
thinking of the heat in Dubai            
of boiling toilets            
consider 3 Million people            
and populations            
of the places              
my brown box              
has visited             
             
I think of the sarcasm            
in words            
flying over     
an Arabian Prince            
             
In Johannesburg            
a small unobtrusive chap            
sits on his motorbike            
swiping his phone screen            
in wait            
for the landing            
at O.R. Thambo International Airport            
South Africa's finest!            
             
My brown box            
travels highways            
byways            
and              
sad-ways            
of the capital            
in crime            
             
Finally my box            
lands on the desk            
             
I open it            
finding the book    
wrapped in      
shards of card-board    
             
I think of its travels            
the life lived            
in 10 days            
places seen            
history consumed    
by a book in a box    
     
and Irony            
having been written,            
printed, and published            
in England;            

Paper scent            
of an ink made              
with love            
blood            
sweat            
and tears            
             
having travelled              
four continents              
in it's young life            
             
I consider irony, living 49 years            
and the couple of times            
I've managed            
Alberton to Durban              
             
the book is a Wild[ling]!