"... faith, trust and pixie dust!"
~"Peter Pan", J.M. Barrie
Once upon a time I knew that I could fly.
No big deal, honestly, it wasn’t hard to do.
Think happy thoughts and pixie dust would lift you to the sky.
No wings required, planes or birds or anything but you.
And gravity was simply mass dividing weight –
Not anything I couldn’t fight off just like that.
Some random word from physics lesson, equals 9.8
(Not really; honestly, that drove my teachers mad.)
And Neverland, the stars – the second to the right,
And straight ahead till morning, my most recent address. ...
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