she could have stayed home
and thrown her own party
perhaps for the neighborhood snails
who are never able to make it on time
and thus receive no invites, not much mail
or a few ladybugs who are always scolded:
get along home, you can see the smoke from here.
she could have played soft music.
voices that never die.
and made her famous fairy biscuits, pie,
fondant light and sweet.
instead.
she turned red as ruby beets
and stormed through the golden streets
turning her pink ribboned wish
to fury.
I wouldn't if I were you
o thirteenth fairy
have spoiled the scene.
you'll look bad in the ballets
from now on
forever in green.
it was thunder storming anyway.
you could have just seen
what was on t.v.
and cut a rug in your taffeta gown
instead of making a scandal in town
you'd never live down.
mary angela douglas 25 october 2017
and thrown her own party
perhaps for the neighborhood snails
who are never able to make it on time
and thus receive no invites, not much mail
or a few ladybugs who are always scolded:
get along home, you can see the smoke from here.
she could have played soft music.
voices that never die.
and made her famous fairy biscuits, pie,
fondant light and sweet.
instead.
she turned red as ruby beets
and stormed through the golden streets
turning her pink ribboned wish
to fury.
I wouldn't if I were you
o thirteenth fairy
have spoiled the scene.
you'll look bad in the ballets
from now on
forever in green.
it was thunder storming anyway.
you could have just seen
what was on t.v.
and cut a rug in your taffeta gown
instead of making a scandal in town
you'd never live down.
mary angela douglas 25 october 2017
