Fairy tale about the Baby Carriage and Sleep Sheep

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The Baby Carriage and Sleep-Sheep

by Asbjorn Lonvig

This baby carriage has been placed at Piazza della Rotondo in Rome.

The baby doesn't cry.

Not a sound.

In 1950 Pablo Picasso made the She-Goat in bronze.

She passed by and looked into the baby carriage.

The She-Goat laughed.

What might be in the baby carriage when it was not a baby?

...

Might it be one of the happy ghosts from the

huge Pantheon Church?

No, they could not stay that calm.

A Bedouin from Arabia

was sure it was a snake.

The Bedouin's camel and dromedary

talked about it, and they were sure

it was a snake, too.

However, a snake would have made some noise.

Rattling or so.

The Bedouin took a closer look.

A pair of legs?

He laughed.

A pair of sheep-legs.

Sleep-Sheep put on his coat.

And here is Sleep-Sheep on Piazza della Rotondo

in the middle of Rome

recovering from his nap number 7 this morning.

Sleep-Sheep has this rug

with 80 pictures of himself.

When he has counted 57 of them

he falls asleep

anywhere.

Even in a baby carriage.

COPYRIGHT ASBJORN LONVIG