My father served in the great war <br />I have his form letter from F.D.R. <br />With ancient yellow tape inside his war journal <br />Enamored of airplanes at an early age <br />I asked him once: 'Did you ever want to be a pilot? ' <br />'No, ' he said. 'Not once I had to go out <br />and start pciking up the pieces.' <br />I never told him about the consortium I found <br />Willing to explore a teen's transglobal air plans <br />Nor Mother, she simply could not have handled it. <br />Her goal was Harvard for her kid.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/want-to-be-a-pilot/
