Drink on the Airplane

Dec. 21, 2012

Drink on the Airplane

We're at forty thousand feet!
Who wants a
SHOT
SHOT
SHOT SHOT SHOT
SHOT?

Sprawled by the window seat,
     a Kansas belle by my side,
And two drink vouchers
     from a friendly Air Tran bar man
          tucked in my palm.

Hi there,
     Miss Attendant,
          Whaddya have?
Bourbon?
     That's fine.
A shot of rum?
     That's dandy!
No tequila?
     Shit.
Well,
     let's toss back this booze
          and pick up the pace!
It's a drinking race,
     the two of us against
          the two hour flight,
Rinsing our brain in golden liquors,
Two of the Bacchanae
     who found each other
          aboard flight twelve
               and made a night of it.