Homeward Flight... [thailand Visit; My Marriage] Poem by Bri Edwards

on homeward flight i sit with 'Ghee'.
an East Bay businessman is he. there's a seat between us, to SFO,
for my wife......if not to mama's she did go.


our trip to Thailand is now done.
we had minor problems....but also fun.
my nose bled (twice) and wife's knee did too,
but we saw birds and beasts (wild) not in zoo.


a seeming-endless stream of bats
over us flew like winged-rats.
a huge water lizard had lost its tail;
i hope, at catching fish, it does not fail.


we had dinner one night with Urai and Karl,
but her mom's death our future plans to visit them did snarl.
he suggested we go see go-go clubs our last night,
but we retired early due to early next-day flight.


my wife bought Chinese bills, while on our trip,
which now sit in money belt on my hip.
hotel toothbrushes i'd give to beggers....(my treat)
but, after first night, beggers i did not meet.



Bangkok's fleet of Toyota taxis was sight to see;
orange, green, yellow, red, blue, and pink delighted me.
it would be busy enough with cars, buses, and trucks;
then add motorbikes galore, weaving among them like so
many little ducks.


in Sukhothai we peddled bikes to a big park.
we saw unleashed dogs, but none did bark.
we took photos of Buddhist ruins and of birds,
and with a Chinese tourist exchanged some words.


in Ayutthaya our cute waitress learned a new word, 'cake',
but I think from plastic, the icing they did make.
Pak Chong resort visit was delayed
by train accident...then by our 'rescuers'' charade.

)
we drank lots of bottled water; they say 'don't drink tap'.
but we brought our own soap to use after pee or crap!
accommodations ranged from a rustic park bungalow....
to some other, more expensive, places that put on quite a show.


i had trouble saying 'thank you' in Thai;
my wife struggled with the word 'baht'; i don't know why.
we ate lots of fruit, meat, eggs, and white rice.
some more vegetables, though, would have been nice.


the weather was pretty good, even cool at times.
my wife treated her skin carefully....to foil 'insect crimes'.
we saw no go-go girls; Karl said their time they'd sell.
but we mused about resort employee, whose sex was hard to tell.


the battery charger burned due to the wrong voltage.
we may make more such mistakes in our coming dotage.
twice we dried clothes on our wire clothesline.
we gave Karl and Urai dry snacks, but forgot to give them wine.


i sent greetings by cards to relatives and all;
my wife sent a few cards, and about twenty I did call.
i used my wife's laptop once, to check my email;
she used it, at times, to confirm our trip's detail.


the beds were 'hard' but sleep was pretty good.
my wife got two beds often, to get what sleep she could.
i called Penn Yan (N.Y.) drugstore one night, to check on
'sleeping pill's' effect
since with our west coast pharmacy i could not connect.


airline breakfast, just concluded, was a small hotdog.
the sun's lighting up the cloud banks, like the East Bay fog.
my stepdaughter will pick my up from SFO like she did 3 years
ago.
and again i'll have short head hair, and a beard i did just
grow.


by now my wife should be at mama's...., not too late i'd bet,
showing her our photo plate that from floating market we did get.
while in Japan she may look at some house to buy.
i guess then to Japan, again, i would someday fly.


on trip i took some U.S. dollars....., even some in my shoe.
i gave some U.S. coins to cabbie's little girls (2) . it was a true vacation; little exercise i did,
and i ate ice cream often...., like a little kid.


i think i behaved pretty well; not perfectly i'm sure.
it'd be a miracle if, for my wife, at ALL times i'd please her.
she, that is my dear wife, should back to me soon fly,
before the laundry pile here at home does reach up to the sky.

(there is more ……but we landed) happy new year! ! !


(Dec.2010)