Instructions On How Not To Die
For the children, teachers, TAs, and staff at Little Horsted School, East Sussex. Thank you for choosing @parkinsonsuk as your charity, your fundraising is fantastic, your poems are beautiful.
Put on your jump suit, it is quite a struggle,
meet your buddy, the man tugging your toggle.
Pull on your harness, adjusted too tight!
Walk outside, the sky looks quite HIGH!
Say ‘Goodbye’, shout out ‘It’s all fine!’, secretly hoping it’s not a lie,
Stride to the plane, like a pro, its roaring props don’t half blow!
Climb a short ladder, still afraid of heights,
Sit in the floor, swallow back your fright.
Get strapped to the man, who does this for thrills,
Take off, sat backwards, up above the field.
Polite conservation, as you fly through the sky,
talk ’bout anything, anything, but not about dying!
Watch the light go green, people fall out the plane,
Now its your turn to feel their pain.
Sit there, on the edge, just like God,
Turn your head to the left, and then drop…