Monstrous Sapling

Voyaging to and fro across Egyptian tiles,
accompanied by a troupe of bored parrots,
I shot down more men than Wesley Harding,
quite outflew Jordan and Lindbergh,
enchanted stadiums with war-like guitar anthems,
played the grey whale to Marino's dolphin,
fused and improved Shakespeare and Hemingway,
sired chieftains to a hundred tribes,
and brought enlightened rule to the Milky Way at the point of a light
saber,
all as I grew from three to five foot
and kept a ball from hitting the ground.