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Advent Poetry Calendar – Day 7 – “The Wicked Fairy at the Manger”

  • Posted by: Barbara Quintiliano
  • Posted Date: December 3, 2016
  • Filed Under: Library News

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 “The Wicked Fairy At The Manger” by U.A. Fanthorpe
Submitted by Barbara Quintiliano. Barbara Quintiliano is the nursing, life sciences, and instructional services librarian at Falvey Memorial Library, and she submitted this cheeky little poem, which has fun with the story of Jesus’s birth and life. In Fanthorpe’s poem she sends a wicked fairy with a “gift” to baby Jesus, like Maleficent to Aurora in sleeping beauty.

Falvey has two books of Fanthorpe’s poetry plus other works.

“The Wicked Fairy At The Manger” 
by U.A. Fanthorpe

My gift for the child:
No wife, kids, home;
No money sense. Unemployable.
Friends, yes. But the wrong sort —
The workshy, women, wogs,
Petty infringers of the law, persons
With notifiable diseases,
Poll tax collectors, tarts;
The bottom rung.
His end?
I think we’ll make it
Public, prolonged, painful.
Right, said the baby. That was roughly
What we had in mind.

 

 


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