"Lollypops & Propaganda"
This is one way stories are invented.
Take a blonde, long-legged child,
place her in a bad situation. For example,
over there in that red bricked, smoky top
factory with broken windows.
Tell her she will sleep there alone
with a telephone book for pillow
and newspaper as blanket.
Use reference for comical banter.
Classifieds: Real Estate- Section B.
Involve characters.
Perhaps a freemason named Bill,
resembles a wolf and smells of stale beer.
His sidekick, a human-like rat
with a frosted wimple and nails painted pearl.
Say that they begin all their sentences with God.
Now this is one way rumors are started—
tell the child you will be back soon
with her little brother.
© 2005 Karen Monahan
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