Fairy Tales of Today

All the Fairy Tales have taken on a whole new meaning.

In these trying days everything changed from its beginning.

Remember that old lady who lived in a old shoe

Who had so many children; she didn’t know what to do?

Now she would be called a very selfish person and crude,

But back then she was admired for her unique brood.

Take little Jack Horner who pulled out a plumb.

He would now be called a liar or at least pretty dumb.

Can’t forget Ole’ King Cole who called for his fiddlers three.

He would be called a slave owner and hung on the nearest tree.

And how about that Humpty Dumpty who sat on a big wall.

WE use super glue now so he could be fixed from his fall.

We can’t forget Little Miss Muffet who sat on a tuffet.

She would be scoffed at for not knowing how to rough it.

How about Hickory Dickory Dock the mouse ran up a clock,

With rat poison now used he would have been hard as a rock.

But Little Bo Peep had lost her sheep which left her remorse ridden.

Now we would chastise and accuse her and ask her whose she kiddin.

I could mention many more & go on but what would be the use.

You know as well as I, Mother Goose was high on a bottle of booze.

Oh times have changed tremendously since those stories were told.

Say, is it us who have changed, have we really gotten that cold?

Written by,

Bonnie May