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tangled up in news
by Philip F De Pinto
all bad
from the front
and back and peripheries - that
all my babies left me
for no reason at all,
save I was not Prince but Toad.
and what is a Toad,
pretending to be Prince to do
but set baby traps
for the up and coming ball?
still, it's a terrible humility to bear
whether you are Prince or Toad
when either is reduced
to relying on a slipper
to loose itself.
loose itself?
ah! - there's the snag!
loose itself? to wear, to loose - to loose, perchance to capture a Toad,
pretending to be a Prince?
hey! wait a darned minute Mr. Toad,
pretending to be Mr. Charming;
now that this slipper's been loosed at the Ball,
just who exactly
has set the trap?
some connoisseur of frog legs?
01/22/2013 Posted on 01/22/2013
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