By Ken Gosse
A flat-earth explorer had made his last pledge
to persist with his search from a great flying sledge
tied beneath a balloon
which he sailed to the Moon,
but his boot was untied
so the first step he tried
meant one short trip for man sent him over the edge.
Ken Gosse usually writes short, rhymed verse using whimsy and humor in traditional meters. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, since then in The Offbeat, Pure Slush, Parody, Home Planet News Online, Sparks of Calliope and others. Raised in the Chicago, Illinois, suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, over twenty years.
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