Poetry Thursday

 

The two Spoiled Cats have challenged the blogging community to write a poem based on the picture below

All the passengers laughed at the man with the toilet paper trailing behind.

“What a fool,” a woman said being most unwise 

Another said “Obviously another Harvard educated master mind,”

A laughing woman offered a prayer for humankind.

Yes, they all prided themselves on their wit

Knowing they were superior to this toilet paper-dragging misfit

But then all the jocularity they quit

When the toilet paper man stepped into the cock pit.

“Oh good Lord its the pilot” a woman yelled

Belief in safety was quickly dispelled

Then prayers, sells and cries were expelled

Because they were in danger unparalleled

One woman wondered “Is then pilot a fool?”

Another asked: “Do you think he remembered the fuel.”

A third wondered if he had graduated from pilot school

A fourth asked if he could win a spelling bee vs Paula Abdul

Then the plane went into a nose dive

And people screamed and made deals with God to survive

It was now clear at their destination they would not arrive

Their families would never see them again alive.

A man realized what they must do before they died

To ask God to forgive them for the way the pilot deride

And they are allowed into heaven, all their many sins set aside

Then they waited for the crash, all certified

 

Then the pain leveled off a development most sublime

And they cheered the ridiculed pilot cheering as the plane did climb

In the cockpit, the smiling pilot confided in his navigator and partner in crime

Leaving a trail of toilet paper, then a nose dive got them every time