Saturday, April 2, 2022

Miss Pince-Nez


And thus I tried, the kind fellows who composed them

offering their odes to my heroine, at first she was fine,

graciously smiling with a kind twinkle in the eye, even

blowing a kiss or two - then I went overboard, gave her

one too many, she couldn’t see who the flatterers were

and she grew scared: Was the world laughing at her

 

Was she being ridiculous accepting praise for deeds

which might land her in jail: overflowing the Internet, I

prefer going to prison rather than mental hospital my

heroine thought, I’d be bored in both places, but at

least I’d be facing interesting criminals and not sad

or insane cases; the nightmare grew till my heroine

 

Was scared and yes, ran away - now I know what to

do with the odes composed for her - put them away,

can’t offer them to anybody else as they’ll lock me up

as a dangerous stalker - at least after falling asleep

she woke with her fear assuaged: Miss Pince-Nez,

my new and improved heroine will be offered a very

 

Small thank you note by every girl and boy who liked

her new children’s book on how not to cook your golden

goose, but to cherish the bird laying golden eggs so you

will always have more the very next day; she will primly

smile and say Thank you my dears, now let us analyse

Alice in Wonderland meeting Quantum Physics Masters

 

And explain the importance of naming the menagerie of 

subatomic particles; repeat after me: Up, Down, Strange,

Charm, Truth, Beauty; now it’s your duty to trace invisible

paths made by exploding these in the Hadron collider as

the Quantum Cowboys do, remember each particle has

a specific flavour  - research these & tell me tomorrow

 

As the kids disappear, Miss Pince-Nez prepares a lesson

on the song of the sun ringing like a bell, needing no other

sources for creating magic tales, just follow Lewis Carrol’s

lead - explain relativity through lovely Alice narratives...

[We’ll call her Miss Inez Pince-Nez]

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