Germanwings Flight 9525

Tinker Bell wafts up from stage right

and touches Snow White’s Castle with

her wand that sends a cascade of stars

curtaining down like dying  fireworks. 

Andreas Lubitz sets his plane to land

in the Alps which is an impossibility.

As in sex there is no talk, only the slow

measured deep breathing of the

co-pilot on the cockpit voice recorder.

There is a finely basted hem that sews

reality and fantasy into a garment

as sheer as the Emperor’s new

clothes.  A child by the side of the road

cries, “ Look he has no clothes!”

But those of us who have struggled with

depression all our lives know better.

There are no clothes ever . . . which is why,

as Jiminy Cricket says, we lock ourselves in.

FG  4/3/2015

I have no idea why someone would try to land a plane in the Alps – which is an impossibility – but I don’t think it has anything to do with vengeance.  Jiminy Cricket was Pinocchio’s conscience.