The ugly duckling grew to goose.
It made its sibling ducks so mad.
"When all this time we swanned
about you treating you so well
- so sad! Filling you with big ideas,
calling you the special one, in hopes
this pond would have a swan
to look benevolent upon! And
each of us, proud brother duck
and sister to a swan so bright!
Just look at you! One gander
tells the gruesome tale to goose
affright!" The goose, meanwhile
crestfallen down, to find its future
held no swan, declared HONK HONK
and flapped aloft, with weight of
siblings bearing down.
Eventually,
as seasons changed,
the ducks and goose regretted
all. In memories of such childhoods,
so much to look for every fall, so much
to find in every spring. So much to love
in each so grown so foul and fair by turns,
so strong.
Our goose came back to find its ducks
had flown. They could not bear our
pond, and all their lives there lost
and won. They'd gone to where
the gooses go, to find the goose
who was no swan.
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