The sun has yet to rise at Stansted Airport.
They confiscate my bottle of Australian root beer
and make me remove my Vans
and my Klepper ski-jacket
and my Zimstern Pedalo beanie
and my iPod
and my loose change.
The T.V. screens in the departure lounge
beam the scrolling headlines about the hanging
of Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikrit.
President George Walker Bush
has called the lynching a "milestone",
because a) someone told him to do so
and b) because he's not the one
who has to cart the bodybags on and off the planes.
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