Fluorescent Lint

by Ben Fortenberry

Incandescent spiders rising up from a lightless void
Fluorescent lint covering a black corduroy jacket

Reinforced plastic hopelessly failing as a mirror
Tangible portal into a distant imagined reality

Inane babble assaulting a subdued mind
An omnipresent hum all over the world

Bobbing heads rock to a silent tune
Headphones drone out the sound

Instructions purveying disaster
Seat cushioned lifesavers

Seventeen Celsius
Pressurization

Flaps down
Buckle up

Arrival
Life