Pandora’s Sister

She found the box

that had been gifted to her sister

by some god, or other.

Her sister who, in capital lettered speech 

insisted that she must never open it.

Even on the days she felt most disagreeable,

most inclined

to stir things up a bit.

She must leave it alone.

Otherwise,

she’d be straight out of the frying pan

and into the fire,

according to Big Sister.

But one day, feeling bored, undervalued,

and shouted at by everyone in the house,

she came across it,

and picked it up,

danced a little jig,

whizzed off the top

and looked inside.

It seemed empty.

Disappointed,

she closed it again

and put it back.

If anything invisible

had escaped

her sister would get the blame,

or so she hoped.

Fingers crossed,

there’d always be hope.

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