This fairy speaks English
a mite better than you
and lives more awake
with his friends
in the unconscious day
wherein he is silent
so as not to have puppets
on the verge of waking up
give the game away
In that it is plainly better not to hear
or know or, god forbid, see
beneath your nose
or even closer within the curls
of a bad advice brain
exactly what happens
with that dream, when it was
here a minute ago
and is now gone to sleep itself
So if you wish to ask this fellow
(go ahead, look that word up
in the eternal dictionary –
I bet it’s still in there)
I say ask him politely
to show his name
and whatever other stuff he can play
and also what he means by “strings”
Better to be straight forward, don’t you think?
Or does he intend to say there’s more
than one of us won’t make it
to Uzès apart from the trumpet
and the beautiful pup tent?
Or is he thinking aloud what kind of steal
we are to house and feed before milking?
Maybe he just means that puppets
can after all hear (if it’s daytime)
and the audience better shoosh now
