Passport

Your passport please.
Where are you coming from?
Stockholm, Arlanda
Fright LH 5433
San Francisco, Pearl Harbor,
Nagasaki, Hiroshima.

Turbulent
take-off.
Surrounded in
dependence.
Push my naval army
air force button.
Rock a bye belly
Over the sea
When the bomb falls
The crater will drop
Baby
Boom.

Emergency
landing. Wake
on an island
in the stormy Pacific
in a City
during a cold war.

The purpose
of your visit?
remains
to be seen
in between
flights, frights, and
war museums.
What's left? right? wrong?
Orient, occident, accident?
Your honor
Justice please.

Business or pleasure?
State your profession?
Pass a fist, pacifist.
Direct her, directress.
Play right, playwrite.

What about yourself?
Baby boom
boom boomer.

This time, it appears
we've caught our baby
on the upbeat
in the midddle of the act
just as she touched down
ground
in one piece.