L Milton Hankins Poet Limerick

Man From the Moon

Said a man returned from the moon
“I fear I have come back too soon,
For I left about seven
On my journey to heaven
And here it is now only noon.”


written, Winter 1972
edited June 29, 2021
[first published in The Hoosier Challenger, 1972;
republished in ByLine, Summer, 1989]

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Caren Krutsinger June 30, 2021 at 11:10 PM This is hilarious! Love it! L Milton Hankins July 1, 2021 at 7:46 AM Thanks. I wrote that back when going to the moon was a big, big thing.