The Abominable Fairy of Bloor Street

[knights_say_nih]

And like the last poem is Jack and Room, this one is Random. It has his peculiar morality attached to it.

A parking meter told me,
AS on my way I went,
"You're ticking like a time bomb, but
Your heart is pure cement.

"You haven't got a dollar,
You haven't got a dime.
You haven't got a lousy match
To light your coal black mind."

I bowed three times, and thanked him twice,
And punched him in the nose,
Then beat him with a want-ad till he
Tore off all his clothes.

"WAIT!" he cried, "I'm actually
A fairy in disguise.
I tempted you with gloomy thoughts,
To see if you were wise.

"You pass the little Sunshine test;
Now, here's your little wand-"
I picked him up and pitched him
In an ornamental pond.

I don't mind parking meters that
Get lippy now and then,
But I can't stand fairies going round
And doing good to men.

Comments

[mm_madb]

...InnerAdultMartin hopes that Random never reads the Bug bedtime stories.

The Bug, however, wants exactly the opposite.

[knights-say-nih.livejournal.com]

Then let it be noted that Martin shall be read to from--

'The Ice Cream Store,' 'Alligator Pie,' and 'Nicholas Knock and Other People,' all wonderful and slightly bizarre but lovely poems by Dennis Lee.