is a strange
midnight gift
bestowed
by an arcane
blue fairy.
What you sought
above all in your
sleepless desperation
will conjure,
at first, such a
pleasant sensation
of waltzing down
the lines delighted, light
as air, and laughing—
but sooner or later,
all parties come
to a close; you must
haul this witch's gaudy gift
home to the slum
where you live—
and that's
when it suddenly
turns scary.
