Mouse
Ron's Mouse
Estes Rockets once were all the rage,
The hobby shop was stocked.
We pooled our funds to purchase
Estes kits. The neighbors flocked
Each time we readied for a launch.
But after a short while,
It was "Ho hum" -- so what, who cares
If one shot straight up a mile?
Brother Ron decided
his
next launch
Would raise the bar a bit --
He'd send a live mouse into space
With his three-engine kit!
The payload space was big enough
For one white mouse, who's small.
The three-stage rocket was a beaut!
Three stages were quite tall …
He lit the fuse. It sputtered as
The neighbor kids all watched --
SWISH, Swish, swish … the engines fired --
Just then the launch was botched --
No one knows what actu'ly killed him --
Maybe when the chute deployed
The explosion that deployed it --
The mouse, prev'iously annoyed --
Was -- how you say it -- "Scared to death?"
No matter what the cause --
That mouse was dead -- just proving --
Why we honor nature's laws …