by Joshua Beckman

    Melbourne， Perth， Darwin， Townsville，

    Belém， Durban， Lima， Xai-Xai planes

    with wingspans big as high schools

    eight hundred nine hundred tons a piece

    gone like pollen¹， cumulus cirrus

    altostratus nimbostratus people getting skinny

    just trying to lose weight and the sky

    the biggest thing anyone ever thought of

    Acceptance²， Vancouver， Tehran， Maui

    school children balloons light blue nothing

    one goes away not forever， in fact

    most people， at least if you are flying

    Delta³， come down in Salt Lake City

    Fairbanks， Kobe， Aukland， Anchorage

    from Cleveland a hundred Hawaii-bound Germans

    are coming in low， not to say too low

    just low pull up Amsterdam pull up Miami

    historically a very high-strung bunch

    smokers⁴ eaters tiny planes must circle

    we have bigger problems on our hands

    New York， Tokyo， Hong Kong， Paris

    the boy who has been ignoring dinner

    throws thirteen paper planes out the window

    does it look like this？ Tashkent， Nome， Rio，

    Hobart， yes yes it looks just like that

    now do your homework Capetown Capetown

    lots of rain good on one good on two

    go three go four go five go six

    Mau， Brak， Zella， Ghat， an African parade

    good on two good on three

    please speak English please speak English

    good on five good on six gentlemen：

    the world will let us down many times

    but it will never run out of coffee

    hooray！ for Lagos， Accra， Freetown， Dakar

    your son is on the telephone the Germans

    landed safely Seattle off to Istanbul

    tiny planes please circle oh tiny planes

    do please please circle

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