Sunday, March 11, 2012

airport security

M. when at airport security
the man asks her
“How many chicken legs do you have?”
she looks up worried,

“Chicken legs?”
he shakes his head.
took a breath, then he said,
“No, ma'am, check in bags!”

1 comment:

Hannah Stephenson said...

Mishearing and misreading often inspires my poems, too!