So long air, so long beauty! - Waiting at the Station Parade and the sad realization that the old beautiful Kew is now fully invaded by vast fumes and deafening noise pollution

Magical Kew Gardens Station
My crow’s cold feet
Cold crow
Keon watching chicken cartoons
A large photo of a waitress
offering me organic Cornish ice cream
and many balloons
grass green
my home’s green
home page I mean
where I’m visited anonymously
and anyway
names are not faces
and faces are not movements
and movements
are not life
necessarily
Kew Gardens Station
where planes’
fumes
can be smelt
and they come down
so near
shame
a beautiful village
invaded by close to landing planes
beauty
that can be
a smelly beauty
every few minutes.
Vida Kashizadeh
6 Jan 2008

May 1935- Gatwick airport BA (Dutch made plane Fokker FXII)
new service to Le Bourget carrying 16 passengers + a crew of 2