The Ugly Puppet: Narrative Verse

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

The Ugly Puppet

In a chest the puppet dwells,
In a junk shop where they sell
Abandoned goods and the like,
Misfit items which the spike
Of the trashman soon would spear
If they were not stockpiled here:
An antique chair less a leg,
Wickless lamps, a leaking keg,
Paintings framed which fail the test,
Sculptures which…