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Tony Piazza
Lapis L.A.

Ed. Eliza Raben
FLYING BOAT

(Takes place right before “SNOW”)
I step inside the big white boat with long wings

to the sound of talking in my language.

I find my seat on the winged boat, and to my amazement it starts to run,
faster and faster, until it leaps from the ground and glides up.

Somehow, its stiff, featherless wings keep it in the air.

I feel my body rising.
My ears pop like the fire at the village.

I finally decide to look out the round window

and I see inside the clouds.

I want to start a conversation with the lady next to me, so I do.

She is very kind,
even with that sad look she holds.

It does not take long until the boat lands
I do not get out

I am going somewhere they call Mini-so-da?

I wonder where or what that is.

But we are somewhere called Floor-e-da
I notice a lot of people exit

and a lot of paler people enter.

One pale woman sits next to me.
I try to talk with her, but when I do

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