Heathrow

There is no cheese for this rat at terminal 4

There was no cheese at terminal 5

And despite the best direction following

Skills available thru the maze that is Heathrow,

Neither was there cheese at terminal 3

Escalators, trains, buses, and lines

Baa-sheeping along with the others

Sometimes their tapping at the dispenser opened

A gate and they passed through

Rewarded

Sometimes they were sent back; “wrong line”

And forced to wriggle upstream of all the  crowding others

To find another line

No gate assignments, even when finding terminal 1,

Instead wait for the gate announcements on those

Infuriating signs made

Fuzzy by leap frogging into another day

Nine time zones from home