How To Tell Bedtime Stories

HOW TO TELL BEDTIME STORIES They loved my same word-for-word account Security and predictability in great amount. Never from books - we all preferred our own version With family or friend names, and carpets Persian, And shorter or longer with time available. It was fun. We took the mickey out of each fable. Three pigs – what pig in his right mind Builds a straw-house in country wolf-inclined? Jack and beanstalk – unlikely gold-egg get-rich Tale of idiot boy and angry mum’s bean-pitch. Rapunzel with steel-tough hair for hauling - Seemed to us she’d more likely be falling. Soon heads were wedged into my armpit or neck crook. Light off - not scared of the dark - it was our nook. Dark was cosy - if outside wind or rain immersed - And everyone fell asleep. Usually me first.