Murphy’s Law

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A modern fable in verse. Wise Monkey Wrought scroll N.008, "Murphy's Law." Murphy observed that anything that can go wrong will. The toast had read his work closely. The carpet had been cleaned on Monday. The toast went up at half past eight, a golden, optimistic square. It left the plate to meet its fate, with butter glistening in the air. A slice that falls has two ways down, and one of them would leave no trace. It chose the carpet's paler brown, arriving butter first, with grace. The toast had studied Murphy's text, and kept the clauses close at hand. It knew which side was landing next. It landed as the law had planned. No malice moved the falling bread. It kept the schedule, nothing more. The plate stayed clean. The toast, instead, lay butter down upon the floor. Murphy wrote the law. The toast enforces it. Bad luck keeps better time than good luck.