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Returning from Amiens
There is a lost balloon inside Charles de Gaulle Airport.
At the check-in desk there’s not a Montgolfier Brother
or a Phileas Fogg in sight.
The Mickey Mouse balloon
is hovering just below the ceiling
in the departure lounge.
It must have strayed from the grasp
of a small child in a Paris suburb.
There are fewer travellers than normal,
Disneyland pilgrims are in retreat.
Cemetery keepers are working in New York and the
Somme.
Theses days it’s safer to stay at home
and read The Bible or the Koran.
To relieve airport boredom I reach for my book
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
Underneath, there is a copy of the newspaper Le Monde.
I catch the headline, ‘George Harrison est Mort.’
We climb to the heavens.
Ian Horn
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