War Dances
““Can you switch Seats with me?”
A woman asked me.
“So I can sit With my husband?”
She wanted me, A big man, who Always books early, And will gratefully Pay extra for the exit row, To trade my aisle seat For her middle seat.
By asking me to change My location for hers, The woman is actually Saying to me: “Dear stranger, dear Sir, my comfort is More important than yours.
Dear solitary traveler, My love and fear— As contained Within my marriage— Are larger than yours.”
O, the insult!
O, the condes...cension!
And this is not An isolated incident.
I’ve been asked To trade seats Twenty or thirty times Over the years.
How dare you!
How dare you Ask me to change My life for you!
How imperial!
How colonial!MoreLess
A woman asked me.
“So I can sit With my husband?”
She wanted me, A big man, who Always books early, And will gratefully Pay extra for the exit row, To trade my aisle seat For her middle seat.
By asking me to change My location for hers, The woman is actually Saying to me: “Dear stranger, dear Sir, my comfort is More important than yours.
Dear solitary traveler, My love and fear— As contained Within my marriage— Are larger than yours.”
O, the insult!
O, the condes...cension!
And this is not An isolated incident.
I’ve been asked To trade seats Twenty or thirty times Over the years.
How dare you!
How dare you Ask me to change My life for you!
How imperial!
How colonial!MoreLess
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