THE ALL NEW MOSTLY TRUE ADVENTURES
OF BABY BOY FLETCHER
As is well know by now, Baby Boy Fletcher (BBF) made his arrival six weeks early, eager to begin his adventures here on earth. On the fifth of September he came to Baltimore to take up residence and begin his all new adventures. While he weighed a good weight – 5 pounds and some odd ounces – he was not quite ready for the blue skies and open roads of life. So he spent some time awaiting his “all systems go” before he could venture out into the world.
He was hooked up to snaky opaque tubing, and bound with wires of rainbow colors and undetermined purposes. Bright lights were aimed at various parts of his fragileness and new and unexplained sounds abounded; susurrations, clangs, dings, beeps, swooshes, jabber, all filtered through lights and tubes and hard plastic shell of his new home.
This was not how most babies were greeted by the world. One could say it was unworldly in its lack of congruence, certainty, or general sense of celebration one would have expected. BBF began to take on the “otherness” of where he was placed becoming more like a being from a place far away in time and space than a newly born baby boy. In fact, his resemblance to a Bradburian rocket man, was noted by many who came to stare at him and marvel.
Thus began his first week on planet Earth.
