Barnstorming (Week 10 LJIDOL: Exhibit A)

		Barnstorming

sometimes life is nothing more than barnstorming
flying from place to place
	landing in fields
	briefly staying emotion to emotion
	offering rides for a price

I haven’t crashed my airplane in *this* many days

I do all my own work, though I consult professionals
		and buy parts

come for a ride, two bucks, maybe $100
		the price of fuel has gone up

but, ya know, perhaps it is time to set my little plane down
build a picket fence around it, with a gate that is always open

grow a garden, marry someone in one of these little towns
set up a life that isn’t on the run
find stability in myself, create it in the world

barnstorming has had its moments
moving cross-country with just my cat and a car full of stuff
I could have stopped anywhere I pleased

now I have lovely tethers holding me here
 	        lovely tethers with names and beauty and peace and calm
I’m out of fuel for my airplane
	the barnstorming ends 
                              
                                here

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and video rendition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvTydoceh0Q&feature=youtu.be (video is of me, at my table reading the above poem.)


This was written for week 10 of LJ Idol Exhibit A. I had the topic barnstorming to write about. Monday evening voting opens until Thursday evening at http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/. Feel free to check back and read the remaining 16 (of about 90) entrants and what we've had to say this week! And vote. :D