BOOK SIGNING

EATING FAIRIES

This poem is included in my book BREAKING AND ENTERING published by Lummox Press, San Pedro, CA 1913. www.lummoxpress.com

EATING FAIRIES

What are you looking at?’ she said.

Zero. I said.

Just zero? she said.

I caught one of them in the garden

Tonight.  It was pretty.  It had four

Wings and made a musical tinkling

When I held it by the wings.

What did you do with it?, I asked.

I bit it in half to see what it

Tasted like., she replied.

It was better than a frog but I

Don’t think I’ll do it again.

They are too pretty.

Did you know your mouth has

A glow about it.  It looks like

There is light inside your mouth.

Your lips are a gold light.

Don’t eat the fairies, I said.

I’m sorry, she said.  I really am.

We don’t have them near our

Homes and I thought they were

Wild things

You have too much owl in you.

I said I was sorry.

You’ll begin to talk like them

Within a fortnight., I announced.

I can already see you look

Different., she replied.

It’s my wings., I said.  They have

Finally grown back but won’t

Be of any real use for a month or so

Are you one of them now?, she asked.

No love, you are.  Don’t touch

Your body except when you

Want to feel the fairy stuff.

No one will believe you anyway.

And it’s hard enough to go out

At night alone because you

Will begin to glow all the time.

No.  I won’t.

You are glowing now.  I replied.

Do you know any of their songs?

Yes, I do., I replied.

Sing me one.

They go like this.