you have seen that curtain on the
aeroplanes
separating business from economy class
seemingly wanting to hide the rich from
the not so rich
the comfortable from the not so
comfortable
what the fuck!
i just don’t understand how
a piece of blandly coloured fabric can
separate
business from economy
i thought the two belonged together!
why the fuck?
how many of those curtains are out
there
reinstating apartheid in the skies?!
the insurgency is burning hot inside of
me
how is this piece of unsightly drapery
going to prevent me from
leaping from my tight economic
seat to go pouncing
right into the spacious luxuriousness
of business class?
i do not mind that there are people who
can afford
double the legroom and more
degrees of seat recline
larger personal TV screens
and premium food and wine service
amenity kits with socks slippers
pajamas eye masks and toiletries
more privacy and increased cabin
staff to passenger ratio
i do mind that curtain though
it is so starched with separatism
it spoils my enjoyment of the miracle
of flying
i have been asked that if i could
choose
on which side of the curtain i would
like to sit?
my answer : not either
i will sit on the wing, why thank you
there where all the sky is my legroom
all the air is my nourishment
and all the clouds and coloured
spectrums of light
is my in-flight entertainment
that curtain is obstructing my hopeful
view of humankind
doesn’t anyone realise what a pitiable
gesture it is?
it is disgusting how it stands in the
way of progress
fuck it! rip it down! rip it down!
these piddly little curtains only
symbolise
narrowmindedness way over its
sell-by-date
it is so incredibly hideous and
abominable and offensive
so frightfully absurd, appalling and
depressing
this classism just does not belong in
the unbounded skies!
how can we allow this on the aeroplanes
that cross
borders and bring nations and families
together?!
i have been asked that if i could
choose
on which side of the curtain i would
like to sit?
my answer : not either
i will sit on the wing, why thank you
there where all the sky is my legroom
all the air is my nourishment
and all the clouds and coloured
spectrums of light
is my in-flight entertainment
argh!! that curtain annoys the hell out
of me
however the air-hostess keeps on
tugging and pulling it shut
i can see right through it
call me a socialist, i don’t care!
i just don’t have the stomach for this
sham
it is a masquerade of a vicious kind
all that the curtain does is to
demonstrate
how mindlessly we are perpetuating
shameless discrimination!
if the plane gets bombed or crashes,
ALL will suffer the same fate
the curtain won’t then distinguish the
rich from the not so rich
the comfortable from the not so
comfortable
i will sit on the wing, why thank you
there where all the sky is my legroom
all the air is my nourishment
and all the clouds and coloured
spectrums of light
is my in-flight entertainment
curtains belong on stages and
in puppet shows
this type of hiding and
dividing makes me sick!
damn that curtain! rip it down! rip it
down!
jubilantly cut it into a thousand
pieces
and throw it into the freedom of the
winds