Skydiving For Catholics

Just for a change of pace, here's an old Catholic joke, set to rhyme. (I'm Catholic, so I guess it's OK for me to tell?)

The canopy, it didn't open 

(and thus the rigger showed his worth),

and the jumper would be broken

upon that hard unyielding Earth.

"St. Francis, save me!" was his cry,

his face turned to onrushing land,

and in a twinkling he did lie

in a great and tender hand.

"Son, I must know you called on me

in truth; you see, I must be sure.

Did you call Frank of Assisi,

or Francis Xavier?"

And thus the moral here for you,

you'd best know who you're talking to.

Music from the Foo Fighters, with Learn To Fly.

The Five Minute Friday prompt this week is AWARE. I don't know...

I really thought I was aware

of life, and what I need,

and then I had an awful scare

when cows ate all my weed.

I'd put it out there in the sun

to get that crispy creme,

but then it all just came undone

and they came on the scene

and dipped their faces in the bowl,

and chewed, then showed pure bliss,

and in my heart it took a toll

that things came down to this,

that I knew not that the herd was nigh,

and now, alas, the steaks were high.

Four minutes, and hey, you were expecting Tennyson? And for the record, I don't use the stuff.

Sylvia knows who to talk to for ice cream, but while she's eating it, you can talk to the paw.