< Denver Airport at 8 am >

[rayheinrich]

How the heck did anyone find their luggage? I live in Denver. It's starting to become very crowded here. I want all the hipsters to go away- rent has become ridiculous.

    This is what you get for legalizing marijuana.
    Maybe California will take some of the pressure off -- Texas sure as hell ain't (sigh).

                                                                < Denver Airport at 8 am >
                                                                the Rocky Mountains turn to -- weak break
                                                                roars and runways

I moved the "to" down to the second line. Pathetic, maybe, but at least I'm trying.

                                                                luggage
                                                                brown and black
                                                                is going somewhere -- 'is' trips me up every time. I keep wanting to read "are." Is there any way you can take out the 'is' and
                                                                put in something else? It's because 'brown and black' is plural, and so the singular sounds strange after that. Maybe it's just me.

While it's grammatically correct, as the singular 'is' agrees with the singular 'luggage';
it's still distracting as a singular group of plural items always seems to cause dissonance.
So I changed 'is' to 'it's' which hides the 'is' with a contraction.

                                                                clean socks
                                                                nice shirt -- 'nice' is weak
                                                                fresh underwear -- ah, the feel of these things after a long journey :

Changed 'clean' to 'good' and 'nice' to 'clean'.  (Now don't go complaining about 'good'.)

                                                                and cops and terrorists and me -- my favorite line of the whole thing. I never think so much about terrorism as when I fly.

I usually think "useless bureaucracy" and "boy, I bet somebody made a mint on those scanning machines".

                                                                at tiny tables
                                                                drink expensive coffee -- love this detail, and it's so true. Tiny, expensive coffee.
                                                                sitting -- meh. I've inferred this from the 'tables.'
                                                                waiting
                                                                here in Denver

What? You've never stood on a table? Or lied?