With any Luck

[Male and Female looping Vocal Samples]
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[Steve Scott]
With any luck
I am trying to imagine your room,
the unmade bed,
the solitary discarded shoe.

With any luck, the dress up box has been upended,
and a gorgeous profusion of brightly colored materials,
hats, shirts, scarves, and stray pieces of cloth
have spilled across the floor.
You have been a pirate, a gypsy dancer, a spotted Dalmatian,
and Peter Pan,
and when you wore the tutu on your head,
I think it was because you were some kind of flower.

With any luck the stuffed animal basket has been overturned,
and there has been a stampede.
The ponies, bears, and dinosaurs
have reached some kind of agreement,
and made their escape together.
The fish are coping with the carpet the best they can,
and the puppies are so excited they have barked themselves silent.

With any luck all the story books have fallen off the shelves,
and the stories have splashed free from the pages,
and got mixed up with the other stories.
Refugees from fairytales
strike a deal with contemporary cartoon characters,
storylines are discussed and suitably rewritten,
plots are altered, expanded,
so that there's stuff for everyone to do.
Only the endings stays unchanged, it must be happy.
Otherwise, what's the point of telling it?
Now there's a question that, with any luck,
will never have to answer.
With any luck at all, will never know.