The Good Fairy Let the good fairy scatter stardust not on the naturally beautiful but on the paler ones, who just are merciful and dutiful. Let them, for once, share in the glamour, have just a little of the stain — press of celebrity and clamour — these decent ones, the simply plain. Those who have easy beauty take for granted fame’s broad glittering spans; how much more generous to make some pleasure, then, for also-rans. Let them have stardust — just a little; it’s still sufficient recompense for being plainspoken, stubborn, brittle, over-endowed with common-sense. D. A. Prince If you have any comments on this poem, D. A. Prince would like to hear from you.