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 …