Tuesday, September 13, 2011

First we learn to be blips

I am back to practicing.  It is tempting to look at other people and think they*ve got it made in the shade.  They*ve learned this business of being a human perfectly.  That*s just it, though: it*s a temptation to think this, and rarely is it true (if ever).  No matter what we*re working on, first we need to take that first step.  Before we learn to make a good three-point landing, we have to learn how to be blips on the radar.

First we learn how to be blips
On the radar,
How to be caught on the edge
Of the screen.
Then the approach,
Entrance into the air space.
We declare our presence to the air traffic
Controllers,
Radio in for the landing.
It takes a long time to learn the controls
The balance
How to keeping the plane level
In the air.

First we learn to be blips
Bi-planes
747s
We learn to be blips
On the radar.
We learn to radio our presence before anyone
Teaches us how to land.
We know it will be bumpy
At first.
It is always bumpy
At first.
But first
We learn to be blips.

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