Role Of Sophisticate (C) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

A gift from the gods for spreading my love of fairies:
a colleague doesn't know Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker:
Sweets: Spanish Chocolate, Arabian Coffee, Chinese
Tea & Russian Candy Cane, French Marzipan and

Mother Ginger with the Mirlitons, she hasn't marvelled
at the Sugar Plum Fairy, nor does she know Verdi's La
Traviata - Barcarolle will blow her away - sensory over-
load my recommending "Mary Poppins", "My Fair Lady"

"Bedknobs & Broomsticks" and Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb,
what a treasure is waiting for her clear mind- what a joy
to discover all this for the first time! - and I found a new
fairy tale based on Goethe's well-known Faustian theme

The best, cleverest man on earth selling his soul to the
devil for 30 years of prosperity, afterwards to go down
& spend eternity with the devil, congratulating himself
the devil will appreciate his wit and use his ingenuity

Just to discover to his eternal chagrin he sold his clever
soul an idiot: the devil is a witless fool, so continuing in
the bitter knowledge eternally that he, the cleverest and
most loved man on earth sold his soul to a silly buffoon

Such lovely irony - what a world of discovery waits to
be processed through the prism of my colleague's so
open mind without preconceptions and assumptions
to mar her enjoyment in fairies & magic - as well as

Find symbols, parables and give meaning to "The Red
Dancing Shoes", "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The
Emperor's Nightingale - I can't wait to see these scenes
reflected on her impressionable mind - with the force

Of a torrential storm - or maybe not, it depends on taste
after all - and I can play the role of sophisticate who
accepts the ennui of an ingénue with aplomb, I think…