History
of the Airplane by Lawrence Ferlinghetti || Author's Links |
And the Wright brothers said they thought they had invented something that could make peace on earth when their wonderful flying machine took off at Kitty Hawk into the kingdom of birds but the parliament of birds was freaked out by this man-made bird and fled to heaven And then
the famous Spirit of Saint Louis took off eastward and And then
the famous Flying Clipper took off in the opposite And then
the famous Flying Fortress took off bristling with guns And so then
clever men built bigger and faster flying machines and And the
Wright brothers were long forgotten in the high-flying And they
kept flying and flying until they flew right into the 21st And buried
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