September
21, 2008 (I
was 63)
-from The Litanies of Mistrust
Never trust:
Hansel to
follow the crumbs home
a dinner
invitation from Mother Hubbard
the Sprats to serve
a salad
a cow’s worth
of beans
Bo Peep to
tend your sheep
a ba-ba-black
sheep to give you a ba-ba-bag of wool
a little piggy
who has none
Johnny Flynn
heading to the well with a sack
Never trust:
the swan
within your ugliness
Mary to be
more than contrary
Pete’s wife to
come out of her shell
a puss in
boots
a woman with a
whip who lives in a shoe
a spider to
scare every muffet away
Eency Weency
to stay out of your spout
Never trust:
Jack Horner to
keep his fingers out of the pie
Charming Billy
not to try the young thing’s mother
Rapunzel to
let down her hair
Boy Blue to
wake up and blow
Spoon not to
run away with your dish
a courting
frog to be unarmed
a monkey to pop
your weasel
nimble Jack
to clear the fire plug
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