A beautiful girl with
Faded blue,
Air conditioned jeans,
Sat next to me on the flight.

She talked on her phone,
Wrote text messages,
Read from an autobiography of Gandhi,
And drank a coke without ice.

That is all I know about her
Because,
We didn’t talk.  

                                                      Cerita M. Hewett
                                                      June 5,2015
                                                      Revised July 6, 2015