Each day this week we are publishing a poem or song by a leading festival talent. Today it is the turn of Julian Fox, whose show about Gatwick airport is wowing audiences in the Pleasance Courtyard.

I'm in Edinburgh. Flew up yesterday

with BMI British Midland.

I had wanted to get to the airport

two hours before the flight.

I could wander around

take a look at the shops

but I got there 40 minutes

before departure.

At check-in, I was asked if

I'd stand down from the flight.

It was overbooked and I could get

£50 cash or £100 travel vouchers.

I was getting quite excited.

I said yes and he goes off

to check. Comes back.

They have found a seat up front,

so I would be upgraded.

I sat next to an

off-duty air stewardess.

She had just flown to Paris

and back that day.

It was only 12.50pm.

She'd been to another country. Back again.

I said her life seemed so exotic

but she insisted that it wasn't.