South x South: Poems from Antarctica

I Take Good Notes, Getting Ready to Fly South

11 I Take Good Notes, Getting Ready to Fly South An airship or dirigible is a type of aerostat. An aerostat is a type of lighter-than-air aircraft. An aircraft is a kind of bowtie worn by the sky to piss off lakes and swamps, dirt, center-pivot-irrigation, forest fires. Aerostatic aircraft stay aloft by heating gas slowly, over a burner, then using a tube to blow it into shapes, a swan, even a unicorn, what girls like before they like the flammability of boys. The history of flight mostly has to do with blood and ice. No, the history of flight in Antarctica can’t be told just now, it is mostly too sad for this time of night, but for example there were once two pilots, I met them in a bar in McMurdo, and the first one was telling the second one, shit, I had to turn back. The other one said, well what for. First one, well my hair was on fire. Second one said, I hate when that happens. ...