I've been waiting with interest for this one, Gary. It's a lot of fun.
Perhaps we should all write luggage poems!

It's the sort of subject where there is lots of vocabulary, and a whole lot
of ideas when you get going. I wondered if you were going to move to the
younger generation after grandfather, Mom & Dad,  - but you just got
retired.
In a way I think 'I desire to be a backpack' was a more startling finish to
a luggage poem. I feel this finish is a bit resigned forwwhat is a crazy
tour de force. But fun!
bw
SallyE

on 21/8/03 6:59 pm, Gary Blankenship at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> I Am Luggage II
> 
> Grandfather was a carpetbagger,
> grandma a steamer trunk,
> a chest full of hope.
> 
> Suitcase and cosmetic bag,
> Mom and Dad connected
> in Greyhound's lost and found.
> 
> Created for overhead bins
> railway luggage racks,
> and a roll down express runways,
> 
> desirous of designer bags,
> more often seen in the company
> of rucksacks and sleeping bags.
> 
> A green scuff from a golf bag,
> a tear from runaway skis,
> khaki stains from a trip with Co. C,
> 
> room for journals and pencils,
> extra paperbacks and socks,
> ready to travel at a ticket's drop -
> 
> Familiar with Logan and O'Hare,
> John Wayne, LAX and SFO,
> rolling concourses  past gates A and Z.
> 
> Grandfather hopped the rails,
> grandma hide outlaws under her lid,
> mom and dad found love on the bus.
> 
> Retired, packed and set to go -
> stops at Limerick, Matsushima,
> a flight over the Sea of Cortez
> 
> on warm Western winds
> until my wheels wear to metal
> and handles catch in the carousel.
> 
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