The Carrier Tag

follow carrier, written in November 1991.

The Carrier Tag
Unpublished work (c) 1991, Lisa Page Weil
All rights reserved.


The carrier bag with the carrier tag.
Then seven or eight more hours and the city;
Changing money where the
Local banks don't take it.
A day and a half with no sleep;
Then two days of sleep.
Train rides and bus rides and taxis.
Airplanes.  Boats.
Travel through a few states.
The green apple from the fruit stand.
The cups of coffee at the end of the row.
The plastic cups traveled well.
Catch up with the time change.
A percent of the little pins have city names on them.