“Toto’s ‘Africa’” by Ernest Hemingway.   

Toto fan or not (I am), I think most familiar with the song will find this endlessly entertaining.

At the airport the young man heard far-off drums echoing in the night. He imagined the young woman in the plane sitting still, hearing whispers of a quiet conversation near the rear of the fuselage. He glanced down at his father’s wristwatch—12:30. The flight was on time.

/Via Alyson Hurt