Airport Security and Other Stories

Published by The Bookends Review as an online exclusive.

is the title of the book my father
intends to write when he grows up.

It is a hoax, of course;
there will be no other stories

just three hundred and fifty pages
of encounters with the TSA
      since 2001
and other, better men.

This is what I tell you
in a coffee shop on Wardour St.

It is one of several things I take for granted
that we already have in common.

You tell me your birthday,
Miami International Airport,

you are as much your father’s son as I am
      all daughter.

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