Curriculum Vitae Poem

I) According to the record I was born in a Sunny Town, off the Caribbean Coast.

II) When I was born, coffee was free without cream and sugar.

Glazed donuts cost a centium. That was the day I fell and bumped my head.

III) My brothers and sister just loved me dearly and used to as a football. Nukes didn't have a glow, and roosters didn't crow in the morning, they just cluck.

IV) A space ship landed, pretty girls touched my nose, and took me inside wearing grapes around their neck. They took me up twenty feet, gave me wings and said-jump!

V) I stayed away from them and they went next door-loving creatures!

VI) On Mondays we helped Jupiterians rolled their tobacco so they would go away and swim more often; they needed a bath and we told them where not to go.

VII) The meteorites missed my city, and landed in the sea; that's how we learned to swim. An octopus showed us how to flap our arms and kicked our legs with our mouths opened.

VIII) My grandmother told me to stay away from the people with leaves around them; my father told me to stick with the one who didn't have leaves. It was fun hanging out.

IX) I loved the light of the moon; my mom could not see me because the dentist was working on her eyes; however, my dad was nocturnal and he guided me along.

X) With my brothers, we went under the sea and played our music because the neighbors stated we were too loud. Then the whales came and swam us off because we could not play "Hip Bop Humming" songs.

XI) We had to learn the language of the wind. Dad said we need something to make us sit down more often. We learned real fast so we would not have to sit around.

XII) The day I met Sky Lady; her language became mine and it was cool.

XIII) My shark turned the bucket over and would not breathe anymore; he kicked for a while. We gave him to the big birds and they grew many more big birds; they loved flying over the sea with buckets looking for kicking sharks.

XIV) One day I got tired and went for a run.

XV) The dragons came, grabbed me, and asked me to come live with them and have fun.

XVI) I had to give them Misterine because their tongues were scorched and they could not talk right; they just babbled along.

XVIII) My dad was mad because he said I should not make a pretty woman my wife, or I would be too happy.

XIX) He sat on an iceberg for five full Milky Ways' Spins until I dropped in one day.

XX) They loved my new wings and my grand dragonettes.

XXI) Everyone wanted me to attach them up; after that we flew away and started a new colony.