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.