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``Would you trade your arms for wings?''

Would you trade your arms for wings?
You can't have both. The bones that are hands and arms for us,
Are wings for birds and bats.
And with our hands we have tools,
Stone knives and socket wrenches;
But they have freedom of the skies.

And they say that when you get to Heaven, you'll get your wings,
And I wonder if you have to trade in your arms first,
Because what do angels need
With stone knives and socket wrenches?



Tom Swiss