Charlie’s Ride

Charlie was always unreasonable, even as a child. He was just that determined to be different. But the most outrageous thing he ever did was to ride the telegraph line on that bike of his.

Martha took his picture as he balanced high above the wheatfields of some Kansas town. She had a post card made of it and sent it home with “Wish you were here. Ha, ha!” written on the back.

It’s truly ridiculous. There he is (Charlie, I mean) wearing a top hat and tails. He’s got on a button-down shirt and he’s wearing a pearl stud in his tie. She caught him true enough, in spite of the foggy morning, with his hands stuck out for balance and all dressed up, perched on his unicycle peddling from one pole to the next on the telegraph wire strung at the edge of someone’s farm in the middle of God forsaken Kansas, would you believe it? Charlie was always the most outrageous, daring person I ever did know.

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