family chatter poem #3

By Jacqueline Jackson

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my grandson has become a licensed
skydiver he tells me he knows a chap
that guinness refuses to recognize who
in turn has started his own record book
S.A.N.S. (Society for the Advancement
of Naked Skydiving) with himself topping
the list at over 840 bareass jumps I ask
my grandson what his ambition is
to create some sort of memento he
says it's to peel and eat an entire banana
after leaving the strut but before
opening his parachute I think he's
pulling my leg but maybe not my next
question to him will be what do you do
with the peel? or perhaps he'd consider
tandem grandma-grandson jumps while I
knit him a mitten which he tries on for size

2022 Jacqueline Jackson

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