Time Shelter

by Georgi Gospodinov

Nothing would ever be innocent again—

With age the fear of flying grows. Clearly it accumulates with the hours and miles you fly, too bad you can’t cash it in, too. A Frequent Frighter card would be a good idea.

I’ve got to go, I can’t sleep with someone who reads Coelho,

He talks about how people are sick of political parties, they’re sick of globalization and political correctness … What’s globalization ever done to them, I try to cut in … and what political correctness here, of all places, where we curse out people’s mothers as a way of saying hello?