What If

Archimedes slipped in the shower Diogenes drowned in a barrel Thor shook in his thunder Ariadne lost her thread Pinocchio had a broken nose Rapunzel sported a wig The Little Prince had no transport Aladdin no fuel left in the lamp Spinoza bereft of lenses to grind Descartes left without doubt Socrates no market place Plato caved into shadows Sleeping Beauty with insomnia Cinderella barefoot forever Little Suck-a-thumb had a thimble Jonny looked into a looking glass 1984 was mere fantasy fiction A Brave New World had courage My Lord had run out of flies The Never Ending Story stopped What if the planet was flat and politicians told the truth Jesus played Balderdash with Mohammed and Siddhartha The rising sun set in the East by a pot of tarred rainbows I would still love you to the moon and beyond my princess Go to the end of the earth as long as you will hold my hand 28th November 2019