Drawing by Gerard Bellaart
The corpse blinked.
Dead but alive
dreaming awake.
Had the algorithm
been misplaced?
Was it “life-in-death”
within the winding sheet
or “death-in-life”?
Signaling the dreamer,
the corpse winked
but could not speak
— or would not.
I woke
and no sleep came.
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Many years ago, I had a friend in the Airline Industry. He once reported a cargo flight to me. The flight involved a male corpse.
After the aircraft had achieved flight altitude and leveled off, my friend told me that the corpse, encased in a body bag, began to move around.
The event freaked out most of the flight crew but not my friend who had made several of these corpse cargo runs.
He explained that when achieving high altitude for a flight, the air pressure changes and this can affect a dead body and cause it to move around. There are reports of some corpses sitting straight up under flight conditions.
The Airline Company, no longer in business, was called PWA – Pacific Western Airlines.
My friend called the airline company “… panic stricken while airborne…”