Attend Fairytale Event 12.09.09 Poem by Margaret Alice

Says my positive book to script desired
events as I wish them to be, I often script
a fairytale poetry event where poets ancient
and contemporary convene, from Shakespeare
to Eugene Marais, from Goethe to Lamartine

I am a protocol officer, doing undercover
spying of course, since the event is so unreal
and based on impossibility, my positive book
says it cannot take place, I derive so much
joy from this daydream

I have not been able to script a real poetry bash
those I have read about taking place in Las Vegas
scare me too much; my fairytale event rarely gets
underway, my spy character usually discovers a
stall offering swimming activities

Then makes a long detour before joining the academic
thing, buys a new diving suit and goes surfing, when it
is time to stop daydreaming I never even created the
fictitious convention

Sometimes my fictitious character will board a flight to
attend such an event and gets sidetracked at the air-
port, discovers a magic toy shop and the rest of the
dream concerns the exploration of that wonderful
Aladdin’s cave

According to my positive book it means I am not focused
enough and my authorship ambitions cannot be realized
because I am more determined to have fun, sometimes
my character ends up at a musical festival instead of an
intellectual poetry conference

Once or twice I even succeeded in making my character
attend the fairytale event, but as an anonymous spy, I
become so involved in the plot of this mystery that the
discussion of poetry does not develop at all, says my
positive book we shall get what we dream about

My conclusion is that I shall end up as a spy and
never get to attend an academic event at all
but I may grow up yet...