Crossing The Line
Reader's Digest India|May 2019

If you think facing border protection is intimidating, try acting natural when you’re packing poetry— or worse, a saxophone.

Gary Barwin
Crossing The Line

NEARLY EVERY TRIP across the border feels like an ordeal: the anxiety, the agent staring deep into your soul, lines as long as the ones in a Walt Whitman poem. Are they going to find the oranges you stuffed down your pants? Do you even remember the name of the place you’re going to? New Pork. I mean York. York!

When the guard asks you questions, it’s important to act natural. What is the average rainfall in the Amazon Basin? When did you start cheating on your taxes? Where were you the night of 24 January? Spell your middle name. Backwards.

Being a poet, I’m bewildering to the inquisitor in the little booth.

“And what’s the purpose of your trip, sir?”

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