Would you like to swing on a star……………………

Would you like to swing on a star

Carry moonbeams home in a jar

And be better off than you are

Or would you rather be a pig [*]

 

I’ve been sitting outside in my cedar chair – adult beverage in hand – watching the sliver of a crescent moon sink below the horizon.

As it does suddenly dark arrives and The Director shouts, “Lights, camera, action!”

OMG!

Look at all those sparkles up there? And that’s just with the naked eye. Put your friendly binocs to them and you have to gasp.

If they were showering down on us instead of being stuck we would be buried within minutes; but what a way to go.

Turn the binoculars to the Milky Way, our galaxy, and the stars become even more dense. It reminds me of the London tube during rush hour.

Oh but wait, over there scrunched in is a non-twinkling light, one of our solar systems planets: Venus. Doing advanced math, what percent of our nine planets – including my favorite, Pluto – are they to all these objects in the night sky?

Let me borrow a gazillion zeros to the right of the decimal point.

It’s enough to make a grown man want to hop in a spaceship for a one way jaunt through the cosmos.

Wouldn’t you love to?

Imagine careening from one star to another to another, whizzing by a planet here a planet there, dodging a comet.

And when I run out of hot dogs in my Igloo, I’d just pull over, take a rest, and swing on a star, carrying moonbeams home in a jar………………….

Where’s Fedex?

P.S. And I still have the option to be a pig anytime I want.

 

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