Barbara Temperton #13 - Cruising I

We’re speed dating South-East Asia

aboard a cruise ship with 3,000 other people.

In the Reading Room, the map I need

has been ripped out of The Atlas,

so I read something else.

People flow-in flow-out all morning.

One individual stays long enough

to open The Atlas at the index,

direct his forefinger down the list.

He stalks out of the Reading Room,

cursing the page-thief, as if,

without that particular map,

he won’t arrive at his destination.