There was traffic at the graveyard
during our hurry to the airport.
And when we finally flew
I looked down on Wall Street’s clay towers
that from high enough looked like
the tombstones from morning.
And we flew even higher over suburbia and
the vinyl homes on their little green yards
looked like big bugs asleep on blades
of grass
and the ocean with the battleships
like the rising tides in our kitchen sink
clogged by piled plates and
filthy knives.
I wanted to fly forever
until I could see the sun
as just another
dying ember.
Samuel Frank is a writer, screenwriter, and standup comedian based in New York City. His fiction has been accepted for publication in The Gramercy Review and After Dinner Conversation, his essays have been published in the American Institute for Economic Research, and his standup comedy has been mentioned in the New York Times. He was named “Best Screenwriter” at the 2021 Austin Lift-Off Film Festival for his short screenplay “Cezanne’s Cupid.”