I just love this, Franco. The "impressive majesty" and "metal beasts leaving earth for the heavens"

…louds my head and makes me hate the road 
…I’d rather live near the airport 
than on a busy street 
because at least the sound of machines in flight 
has a sort of impressive majesty to it — 
metal beasts leaving earth for the heavens 
to take human beings somewhere far away…
but the cars, they’re gross and ugly and low 
to the ground—the cars, ugh, the cars 
are as stuck a…
let’s grab our shit and go
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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May 20, 2023
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I just love this, Franco. The "impressive majesty" and "metal beasts leaving earth for the heavens"
Will think of this next month when I'm at LAX
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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