Sim-ply ha-ving a wonderful Christmas time

The Travelator hums with Advent cheer

I got all my gifts on Amazon Prime

Tesco’s delivered the wine, the beer

I have been vaccinated against Seasonal Stress

And McCartney on the Public Address

Don’t make me go to Lapland

Wherever that may be

For the holidays I have nothing planned

I might stop at Terminal Three

You can leave Christmas at my door

Wrapped up in white plastic on the floor

Between Starbucks and the Duty Free

Photographed by EVRi

And every day will be

A repeat of the day before

Waking across three seats

To the familiar whine of the vacuum’s drone

And Crushing Candy

And Toblerone.

And blinking red eyed at florescent lights

And flurries of cancelled flights

And runway lights - white, red and green

Flicker jollily, hollily in between

The scuttling of cargo  

Reflected in the window

I see the perfume counters billow

In waves of five star luxury scent

Golden, shimmering, spent

I’ll celebrate the day

with a pint of Staropramen

Served by a distracted barman

On double time pay

And then I’ll take - hands down the most Christmassy thing about Christmas -

A Festive Bake

Flaky pastry topped with crumb

Stuffed with stage and cranberry sauce

From Greggs. Of course.

The arrivals and departures board is frozen and in limbo

On this, the occasion of my Terminal Three Crimbo

Feliz Navidad

Sim-ply ha-ving a wonderful Christmas time