Balcony High Wire

Goku: “The plant pot was solid, but right next to it rose a tall metal clothes rack with steel bars gleaming in the noon sun. I leaped from the pot's rim onto the lowest crossbar. It shook, but I clamped my tail tight around the metal pole to anchor myself. Grabbing the next rung with both hands, I pulled my chin right over the bar and hauled myself onto a horizontal wire where a thick wooden clothespin clamped down on a striped hand towel. I pushed down hard on the spring of the wooden clip with my boot until the towel slipped free and drifted onto the balcony floor like a parachute. Higher ground claimed!”