Some Aeronautical Advice to my Younger Self ( or...You Will Believe a Moose Can Fly)

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Open Poetry #46

Some Aeronautical Advice to my Younger Self ( or...You Will Believe a Moose Can Fly)

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

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Bewilderment , USA

0 posted 2010-06-23 02:19 PM

You ain't no super hero slick, do not dive headfirst onto bricks!
(Only five feet right straight down, head wounds bleed like hell I've found, for one brief second I could fly, well worth the scar above my eye.)

Hands greased with frosting from a cake do not a trapeze artist make!
(For fourteen feet I was aloft, the impact, anything but soft, to swing like Tarzan through the trees, one broken humerous if you please!)

You should unplug an amplifier prior to messing with its' wires!
(Eight feet through the air I flew in an arc when that thing blew, a flash, a pop, then coming to, in retrospect not smart to do.)

Though you may have the right of way the larger object rules the day!
(Marked twenty-eight feet from me to shoes, and six weeks to recover too! Where she came from I have no clue, back then we didn't know how to sue!)

Mix alcohol and snowmobiles to make for one painful ordeal!
(My one attempt at backward flight, not much distance or much height, a third of a kneecap is better than none, up to that point it was fun.)

All wheelie riding on a bike should be saved for younger tykes!
(A three foot distance from the ground will cause you to make "Owwie" sounds, concrete sidewalks, softer grass, no doubt where I set my a**)

To demonstrate your first slam dunk don't wait until you're quite that drunk!
(A shoulder plant from eight feet up's not good for your rotator cup, NBA star? No way, I ain't, and broken bones can make you faint.)

And so my history of flight became the subject of this write.
Up to this point there, younger guy, I have no doubt that we can fly.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2010-06-23 03:26 PM

now, had to chuckle at this...and then "ache" as I remembered my own attempts at flight..

well done...

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

2 posted 2010-06-23 03:42 PM

CPat,
Thanks, I'm glad you got a chuckle, I guess the trick is to live through it all so you can laugh about it later.
Doc

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

3 posted 2010-06-23 04:08 PM

... and this is why Moose are grounded!

Toerag
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since 1999-07-29

Posts 5622
Ala bam a

4 posted 2010-06-23 04:15 PM

Well, obviously you're too young to know what Purple Haze was. I could do all of those things.........then

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

5 posted 2010-06-23 05:26 PM

~enjoyed this~~

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

6 posted 2010-06-23 05:33 PM

Alison, lol actually my flying skills are pretty good, it's the landings that need a little work.
Doc

Toe, nope, I remember that Hendrix song pretty well ( among other things, but I'd rather not go into detail. ) Suffice it to say the world was a very interesting place
in the late sixties/early seventies.
Doc

Bel1e,
Glad you liked.
Doc

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