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Plane Crash in Nepal
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preamble
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And if you think of other planes
Dimensions, even
Torn and torn apart
I think you’re tragically
Correct
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story
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If you’ve ever seen
A landing in Nepal
(I saw one, recorded)
Then you saw
How steep
How brief
A perilous experience
Considered normal
Was there sudden wind
Inside the mountains
Of Himalaya?
Was there ennui
Among the pilots
Who got too used to doing this?
Was there worse
Or better
Doesn’t matter
To the loss of life
That’s final on this side
And for us
All the keening
And investigating
A place of peril
On a good day
This was not a good day
It was a horror
Out of normalcy
We like to think plane landings
Are ho-hum
Not a terror
The humdrum fabric
On the loom
Ripped apart
The frames of bodies
Broken
Flung and sung away
For furies
Or other agencies
Who mission is to surprise death
Out of our ordinary
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This was ordinary
Leisure
Otherwise, uninteresting
Now the count
The cost
The loss
The news
Prayers lining up through ages
A horrible new age
Unending sorry
Ending
Beginning
Some kind of cycle no one
Wants to live through
And live through
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C L Couch
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Photo by Rahul Lal on Unsplash
The Other Side of Himalays
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