When I was...oh....about thirteen I became a boy scout.
I had "graduated" from cub scouts.
This I hope will explain a little more about me.
It was a "fork in the road"
I received the "scout handbook"
On it was a geeky looking dude (I'm talking stereotypical roll model here)
(refrain)
With a geeky smile
Happy as can be
Walking to his right
Waving with his left hand
Looking at the reader
Holding the "scout handbook"
at his side
with his right hand
Here's the kicker:
On the book he was holding
Was himself
Holding a book
Of himself
(refrain)
I never got over this.I still (obviously) think about this.It was endless,infinite.
Holding a book of him holding a book of him holding a book of................................ad infinitum.
Nuts huh?
I had "graduated" from cub scouts.
This I hope will explain a little more about me.
It was a "fork in the road"
I received the "scout handbook"
On it was a geeky looking dude (I'm talking stereotypical roll model here)
(refrain)
With a geeky smile
Happy as can be
Walking to his right
Waving with his left hand
Looking at the reader
Holding the "scout handbook"
at his side
with his right hand
Here's the kicker:
On the book he was holding
Was himself
Holding a book
Of himself
(refrain)
I never got over this.I still (obviously) think about this.It was endless,infinite.
Holding a book of him holding a book of him holding a book of................................ad infinitum.
Nuts huh?
11 Comments:
I ,uh, just wanted to say that at this point in my life I did not..... I repeat.....did not use drugs.
You know when I was young I so badly wanted to join the scouts but never did. I'm not sure if this post make me wish I had or glad I didn't :).
Terry
The White Wall
http://mcleans.dnsalias.com/whitewall/
I was a girl scout, hehehe "hated that uniform" glad to know...just too neat...that's all just too neat! someday gonna see for myself! Unique!
ps if you don't mind: anna, have tried everything i can think of to link with inky...pointers to a not so comprehending computer not so geek!???? would be much appreciated, when convenient...can email if desired at peggy.murphy@gmail.com...a premature THANK YOU! :-)
Once, when I was little, I had a Barbie nightgown.
The picture on the front was Barbie wearing the same nightgown.
Thus resulting in the picture of yourself wearing a picture of yourself wearing a picture of yourself...imagine how profound THAT was to my three-year-old mind.
Wierder still that I noticed it, I suppose. But I can remember being confounded by it.
I wonder if the creators of these items did this on purpose?
I just knew I was keeping good company, anna.
I just knew it.
dude.. i totally used to stand in front of the mirror with a mirror behind me and try and count how many me's in the mirror in the mirror in the mirror there were...
of course i also walked around with a mirror under my nose so i could pretend i was walking on the ceiling... no one said i was normal.
That's not normal?
Oh
Your poems rock! They are so funny. I was a brownie. And in Alpha Phi Omega, a coed fraternity that was and may still be loosely affiliated with the Boy Scouts.
Yeah, I'm with the poemster...I thought that was normal.
I also used to where my mom's old glasses and pretend to be walking over mountains in the living room--she had bi-focals.
You all crack me up!!!!!!!!! :-)
Oh Man! I'm not sure if I'm normal or screwy, but when I was a kid, getting my haircut, I used to get that same mirror infinity thing, from the barber's chair. I used to think that was so neat. I think I actually turned around the first time.
LOL!
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