Truths and Fairy Tales

Say all is right with the world:

It's such a beautiful lie,

Why should it not

Arrive

With pearly wings

And trumpets

From a blue, blue sky?

Say you know the truth:

It's such a fabulous lie,

Why should it not

Announce itself

With a sequined dress,

A coach,

And four footmen?

Say you didn't mean to:

Now that's just squalid,

Divine intervention and

Fairy tale splendour

Will not mask

The ugliness

Of that lizard

A..J. Ponder 

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