In This Life We Should Never Poem by Patti Masterman

In this life we should never be given
what we have asked for:
and this is a blessing unto us, for how would we know
what to do, if everything we wanted came true-

What would we need pink fairies for then?
Of what possible use could be a rainbow-
When all your loved one's are missing; and the house fell down,
and didn't they all have clown's white-face on at the end anyway?

In my dreams, I put on an angel's ankle-boots
but they always turn into black witch boots
with the curled up toes burnt away

And in the storybook, they disguised her growing breasts
under chicken wire; and though she vanquished the villain
She could never pick all the wire pieces out of her heart again.