Danny

Danny was just a kid when he found a useless copy of how to be successful.  He was now old and on his death bed and he said to the nurse that he liked the flowers his friends had brought him.  The nurse hid a tear as no one had come to visit the man and the flowers belonged to his roommate who was recovering.  An arrangement with lavender and tulips which his family had brought him.  Beep beep beeeeeeeeep Danny flatlined and died.  At Danny’s funeral, alone in his casket he thought it was quite dark.  Murmurs, thuds, silence.  Silence some more and for a long time a long while until one day Danny saw light.  This is the world now?  Danny thought, he was so small under the sky.  Danny grew into a mighty Elm tree over many years.  He sat for many years and then once again turned into dirt after the city chopped him down to make way for powerlines.  What an odd place to put powerlines, right through a cemetery.  So Danny turned to dirt again unable to shape the world around him but lived with the worms then was eaten by a bird and was born into a bird.  Danny stood at the edge of the nest and his mom pushed him out.  Danny needed to fly he flapped his wings and he flew he soared through the air like an airplane.  That’s why his bird brothers and sisters called him airplane Danny because he flew like an airplane.  No, they didn’t call him that either they can’t speak because they are birds but Danny did learn to sing like a bird.  Danny had a bird family.  Then one day Danny was shot from the air by a shotgun spray and he was eaten for dinner by man.  Lucky Danny was eaten and then became a part of this man and the man had a wife and they had a baby and Danny could think again.  Danny couldn’t remember where he came from but he knew he had been alive before.  He grew into a young person and he suddenly remembered how to be successful, so he sang the songs of birds and was successful and he had many friends and a great big family and on his death bed there were flowers and they were his.