Radio Flyer

we are all time travelers

ninety nine percent of the time

we are hurtling forward

downhill in a radio flyer

wagon

with a child's blanket

for a cape

flapping at our back

super hero style

faster

and we can hardly steer

faster still

as we try to keep it arrow straight

still faster and

it all dumps into the ditch

......

but as we lay there laughing

crazy with the thrill

lost in the rush

lying in the wish

for that moment of one per cent

in the past

...

waiting

to go again

waiting for our next turn

we find ourselves in our past

we get to a memory

of what made the thrill ...

standing in line

waiting for our number to

make it to the front of the line

again