At An Airport Bar - An X Rated Poem

Story by Hetiseen Rozevos on SoFurry

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This is a silly little poem written for a friend. It details what you might call a "casual encounter" between two ships passing in the night... in an airport bathroom.


There is a great deal of metaphor in this poem which is unknowable without significant insight into my personal history. I don't think it is strictly necessary, though, to understand the symbolic intricacy to enjoy the piece. What I do think is necessary is that it is understood by a reader beforehand that the war is a time period I spent living in North Carolina. The Fox is me before leaving Oklahoma for North Carolina. The Panda is me returning to Oklahoma from North Carolina. The Kangaroo and the Seagull are both metaphors for the girl that this poem was written for, who knows who she is and I'm confident will find this all quite amusing.

I made the shy admission

I'd like to write to you

You gave me that permission

So here is what I'll do

I'll tell a simple story

Of life and love and war

It doesn't end in glory

It doesn't end in gore

The tale's about a Panda

A Fox and Kangaroo

A Sparrow and a Seagull

And some of them are you

The Fox and Panda sat down

A lonely airport bar

One returning here to town

The other off to war

The Fox said he was ready

To give his life for peace

His aim was always steady

His courage would not decrease

The only thing that hurt him

And gave him cause to drink

A Kangaroo'd caught his eye

And set his mind to think

"He doesn't even know me"

"He set my heart on fire"

To which the Panda told him

"Well get him on the wire"

"His heart is with another"

"I'm nothing that he'd want"

"But if I die in battle"

"I know just who I'd haunt"

The Panda drank another

A furrow in his brow

"I think I understand you"

The Fox: "I don't see how"

"It's true that I'm returning"

"I'm safe and home again"

"My time for fighting's over"

"To it I say amen"

"But in my darkest hour"

"When hope and faith had died"

"I met a handsome Seagull"

"From whom I now must hide"

"As bullets flew above us"

"I held his hand and cried"

"I told him that I loved him"

"In him I could confide"

"But as the danger left us"

"In going there to here"

"He said 'I'm getting married'"

""She's'a flighty lil' deer.'"

The Fox admitted that this

Was much like his own pain

He said, "I've gotta go piss"

But still he did remain

He brushed against the Panda

A subtle little touch

And said to him in whisper

"I like you very much"

Four animals you've met now

Two taken; two alone

The Sparrow is arriving

No reason to postpone

For in that airport bathroom

As quiet as two mice

A Fox and Panda made love

And love and love... wow, thrice?

You see, the way the Sparrow

Has figured into this

Is that he is the spirit

Born from their carnal bliss

Right about the moment that

The Fox had raised his eyes

With his ears in panda paws

And paws on panda thighs

That was the very moment

The Panda looked straight down

That was the birth of Sparrow

When Fox did nearly drown

Before the Fox had risen

Turned, pressed against the wall

The Sparrow took it's first breath

And whistled out a call

Panda's paw on Fox's mouth

They couldn't make a peep

Sparrow spread its wings and flew

Their love was sinking deep

Panda bit the Fox's neck

And once again did fill

Fox's needy body with

The product of his thrill

Fox got down upon all fours

And truly played the part

While Panda for that third time

Plowed his way to Fox' heart

I sat beside my window

Bird lighted in a tree

He sang of Fox and Panda

That's how this came to me

The Kangaroo and Seagull

The persons of your dreams

They are not so important

As Fox and Panda seems

What did the Sparrow teach me?

The metaphor, you see

"Fuck the past right in its ass"

"But do it lovingly"