Female Narrator For once there was an unknown land, full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous. Female Narrator Childhood, adults always say, is the happiest time in life. But as long as he could remember, Jack Fairy knew better. Child on Subway Yesterday upon a stair, I saw a man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today, How I wish he'd go away.