Fables
Before the 20th century
It was baking and the crops
Banked fires against the cold
And wearing shoes as necklaces
To cross the fields to school.
My granny told me stories
Of babies in the cot
And the breaking of the sod
Clucking chickens in the yard
And why the moon landing
Was nothing but a fraud.
The ‘Flashing Blade’ on TV
And the way the puppets fought
Made the news appear quite odd
But the ‘Polis’ and the baddies
Were the standard stories told.
The years swapped the fabled
For the imagined and the real
But where my granny trod
The ghosties and the earwigs
Still fled in fear and dread.
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