FREDERICK TURNER

Travel Delays

The island's like a tune you can't forget:
It's harder to get off than to get on.
Commercial flights are cancelled; internet
is down; the last supply-ship has just gone.

He gets a ride out with the postal plane,
but on the mainland there's a general strike:
It seems they're changing governments again,
the premier signed a pact they didn't like.

It's easier, he thinks, to go with the flow;
roadblocks turn back his taxi, he must stay;
And stateless in the Hotel Pelago
he hears the protests just two blocks away.

A new anticiptaion starts to burn:
Can one who gave his life up still return?