The Idiot's Wisdom

"All that we see or seem

is but a dream within a dream."

                   -Edgar Allan Poe

there's a story 

about an idiot

that would run everyday

up and down the streets

of a fisherman's village

bellowing:

"I have seen

the mermaid, I have seen

the mermaid!"

'till one day 

he did see the mermaid

and grew silent.