potatoes and poetry

What he thought was his fairy godmother sent to grant him splendid wishes and great fortune turned out to be just a potato of the ordinary variety with very little wish granting authority. Still, he got a good haircut out of the whole deal.  The haircut turned out to make his friends jealous who were then mean to him causing him to stay home alone a lot. Staying home alone a lot got him really depressed and he found himself writing very bad and gloomy poetry but he thought it was rather good poetry.  So did many pretentious and self-absorbed college kids who mistook themselves as experienced and enlightened because of the big words they were learning and the self-referential conversations they had in classrooms and among themselves.  They used some of those big words to describe his poetry in attempts to compliment him but when they said things like “vacuous” and “mellifluous” he didn’t know what they were talking about and he didn’t realize that the college kids didn’t either so he just nodded and said thanks.  The college kids’ parents were very impressed with his polite demeanor and the fact that he seemed to know what their kids were talking about so they encouraged their kids to spend more time with him.  The more time he spent with them, the more pressure he felt to write poetry and he continued to produce more and more bad poetry.  The continual pressure from the college kids who were becoming increasingly annoying eventually got to him and he began to miss his old friends and he began to write nostalgic poetry that the college kids did not find cool at all and so they stopped being friends with him. He began to stay home and be alone a lot again but since he was so tired of the college kids, being home alone was comforting and he didn’t get depressed at all.  It gave him time to think and he thought back to that potato and how disappointed he was that it wasn’t his fairy godmother but then he thought some more and was quite amazed by the potato because as he carefully reviewed his experience, he realized it was actually quite an amazing potato.