Advice To Be Followed In The Worst Part Of The Fairy Tale Or That Awful Dream About The Balloon Poppers

when and if the things around you start to change shape

or meld and gel around you in a terrible jello mould

salad with pistachios and cream cheese and somebody

has really stubbed their toe on the dark green food colouring

or something, the tiny seasick marshmallows

or you are being squeezed

somehow turned into something someone else's

tubed toothpaste or

rather like a balloon animal twisted into a circus

thing

and in a nation of people

wielding pins

swiftly excuse yourself from the birthday party;

forgetting the strawberry ice cream or

you are advised to call a halt to the proceedings which are probably

happening in dreams or at least like the lillac fairy in the Sleeping Beauty ballet

have SOME say so for hecks sake in what happens to you, around you and PRAY

even if you dont carry a wand that works

so that they dont change you into something too bad

that you can't fight your way out of patiently

this is my advice for the things that happen to you

that were never supposed to happen

at all.

take it or leave it.

mary angela douglas 7 february 2022

1Mary Angela Douglas