San Francisco - Dowsing

Choking on the thought of leaving

Drinking to keep from sobbing

4 PM, four dollar pints

The SFO, the time and price

With all my happiness aborted

The PA painfully starts boarding

I sink deep, thirty thousand feet

Into my window seat electric chair

And I was drinking you goodbye

My heart floats in the bay

From sour home Chicago

I hear it beating far away

And there’s no telling what I’ll do

If I don’t return to you

Hopeful thoughts of soon returning

Can’t put out my stomach burning

Plastic wings and plastic smiles

Unsalted peanuts to stretch my miles

Choking on the thought of leaving

Drinking to keep from heaving

5 PM, five dollar pints

Hell-bound Airlines, time and price

And I was drinking you goodbye

My heart floats in the bay

From sour home Chicago

I hear it beating far away

And there’s no telling what I’ll do

If I don’t return to you