The Luggage-less Life

Ode to Air Canada

At the check-in counter in Moncton, NB

We trusted the airline implicitly.

Luggage was tagged and gave to the clerk,

As she nodded quite sweetly and said with a smirk

“You’ll see them in London”

(These slick words came tumbling

Over the noise of the engine’s loud rumbling).

But Heathrow was void of our stuff the next morning

So sadder but wiser, we post a stern warning

“Don’t trust them, they’ll trick you, Air Canada will

Words have no weight with this company still.”

So we filled out the forms and processed them too,

And we wait here in Yemen with possessions so few.

So cry with the Cricket and don’t fly on Jazz

or next time your bags they’ll lose with pizzazz.

~R.C.