Ups and Downs
Let’s have a staycation, Ted said (he won’t fly
because if he did he would certainly die)
Don’t know how those aeroplanes stay in the sky
You won’t change my thinking so please don’t try
His wife said we just took a family vote
We’re flying abroad while you go by boat
We’ll get there first but we’ll try not to gloat
You still can relax in the time you’re afloat
And so off he goes with his luggage on board
And calm is the sea so he feels quite assured
The plane overhead not as high as you’d think
That’s not his concern so he goes for a drink
Was that his wife’s plane, she’s welcome to that
You're safer afloat even if you’re a prat
He said thank you God for the family vote
It was about then that the plane hit the boat
Copyright © Terry Flood | Year Posted 2021
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