NOTE OF THE AUTHOR: Everyone knows about the writter's block of inspiration, well since a while, I've the opposite of that: I needed to express my feelings that I had in mind...

Recently, I wrote a Cardcaptor episode about a subject that touches my subconcience in my sleep (I keep dreaming the same plot over and over to the point that I expect of dreaming it before going to sleep), but it wasn't enough.

To explain why I wrote this poem... I'm a big "Ozzy & Drix" fan, but with the TV channels that I have, I CAN'T get the show! So, I turned to the alternative: watching reruns of my favorite 80's show. It brings back alot of memories (anecdote: at x-mas last year, my cousin Lucie told me that when I was young, every time that I watch the IG show, I haved made nightmares about Madcat... I don't know if that is true). One clear mermory in paticular about the show, in my opinion, is the most underestimated and misundertood: IG's trench coat.

This item of clothing as a mystery around it: why did Jean Chalopin, or one of his friends, had the idea of putting this as one of IG's most used gadgets? Besides that, the inflatable trench was a sort of running gag trough out the series (it was used more than once in some episodes!), and can be a source of slapstick comedy (like the time when IG was in Japan: that scene remined me of when Austin Powers fights againts Fatbastard in a sumotori house in the Goldmember movie), but in the end, it still saved his life lots of times (special note: for those who didn't saw the first IG movie, there is a scene were he uses his trench againts Robogadget, but the weird thing in that scene was instead of the usual "Go, go gadget coat" we all heard in the show, we hear the misleading phrase "Go, go gadget airbags", what's up with that?)

Another thing that is strange is once I found a part of the yahoo site (yes, a part!) that was dedicated to the sexual fetishism of inflatable clothes! That make you wonder alot of questions for a man that falls in love all of a sudden for a drop dead goregous woman.

Until now, I've seen the Spongebob Squarepants episode of when Spongebob flew in inflatable pants and of the movie the Master of disguise when Pistachio wore that "special" business suit, but for me, no one has duplicated the legendary charm that the trench has... So this is why I wrote a poem to my fav gadget.

As usual, I must warn to the readers that I don't own the rights of copyrights of the Inspector Gadget show... Jean Chalopin, former-boss of the DIC company, is the only master of american chindoku (japanese word: the japanese art of creating useless things, gadgets in other words)

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What is my fetish?

It is my fantasy

This is my ecstacy

But it's not selfish

Adrenalin rushing in me

My heart beats faster

It is better to let it be

I enter a new dimension

The feeling's stronger

Things beyond imagination

It's liberating

Being free as the wind

Great thing in the world

I can't stand waiting

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I get ready

In position

For all action

I get steady

Just a pull of this rip-cord

From this trench I wear

It's something I can afford

Do you hear this hissing sound?

It's filling with air

For I love to be spellbound

The process is begining

But, there is no phase of standby

It goes in a blink of an eye

Though it seems neverending

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I expand

Glorify this inflation

It's my body's extension

I distand

I'm a balloonist because I balloon

That you can tell

Oh, I can do anything like a toon

As you see, I bloat and widen

I love to swell

It's a power which is hiden

This power to inflate

Is precious

Delicious

It's something intimate

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I start floating

Going to the sky

Which is so high

I am rising

Flying

Escape, I so love

Soaring

I am so lucky

This suit's like a glove

It fits only me

I'm like a bird

But more of a blow fish

It's become a true wish

And that's the word

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If you like this poem, here's a bonus haiku I wrote also...

"A clear windy day.

She inflates her suit. Rising.

Light as a bubble."