distance (part forty-five)

I need to know if you have any baggage

Baggage that you insist is carry-on but is heavy enough to be checked in

Baggage that the airline should have lost for you

Baggage that calls you at half-past at night and asks if your girlfriend is there

Baggage that is bursting at the seams

Baggage that makes you a jet-setter, a nomad, airport to airport, hotel to hotel with the soaps you always save and take with you, to add to your

Baggage that you can't zip up all the way

Baggage that you can't leave behind

Send me pictures when you go alone, don't bring me any souvenirs

Look out at city lights from your hotel windows

Call me when you get there

Unpack it

Leave with what you brought

Call me

If you're gonna go anywhere with me, I don't this heavy-type-shit

You stick with them back there or you stick with me right here

Me, I love travel, but I travel light

If you're gonna go anywhere with me, learn to pack like you're gonna come home at the end of the trip

-Dana Winter