THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 8. UNASSISTED BUILDING SCHEME by HUMBERT WOLFE

SO like any of us
Kensington or Hyde Parkers,
she climbed on the bus
that stops opposite Barker's.
But where she got down, at
what street, and what number,
I am far too excited
just now to remember.
Then just as she was
directly that minute,
she made a blue print of
the house and all in it.
And she built the whole thing
from the roof to the cellar
with a wave of her wand.
But with no one to tell her
(and with no one to ask) that
no building would be
complete without kitchen,
and taps (H and C),
(because fairies, who bask in
perpetual summer
don't cook, and don't wash,
and don't call in the plumber),
she didn't include them;
and what was still harder
for the maids, she'd forgotten
to build them a larder.
And it wasn't until
on the very first morning
when the maid said "No sink,"
and promptly gave warning,
that, pleading in terror,
that, if there were not
it was merely an error,
she added the lot.

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