[lit-ideas] Re: Longing to age
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:36:06 -0600
Ha, yes. When I was a kid we lived on a farm for 3 years when I was 7 to
10 years. My two brothers and I had BB guns despite the fact that "they
could put your eye out." But we weren't aiming at each other, we were
shooting Germans and Japs -- they were everywhere, they were the trees.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Craning my torpid neck,
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> Needing to check traffic
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> On my left I pushed
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> Some and guessed the rest;
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> Arriving at my destination
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> At last I’d passed
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> Through one more test,
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> But not as self-impelled
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> As I had hoped. Was it luck?
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> I hoped not, but if it
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> Was I’d had quite a lot.
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> A small airplane passed
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> Overhead. I remembered
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> Sitting with a spotting book
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> Watching them pass during
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> World War Two. I was nine
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> Or ten but interested in what
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> We were doing, flying
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> Overhead to become
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> Ready to fly over there.
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> What was done
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> Near me furthered
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> Our fight against the
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> Germans and the Japs,
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> Whoever they were,
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> Whatever they had done.
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> I longed to become older
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> So I could fight them too.
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