If I got the story straight

            A missing nail once cost someone his crown

 

            Served him right

 

            But that’s just one side of the coin:

            What happens to a realm

            When something extra crashes the party

            Like, for instance,

            A hair?

 

            “A hair? Are you kidding?”

            You’re probably saying to yourself

 

            “No, I’m not”

 

            It wasn’t curled or grisly looking

            Or especially long

 

            Just an ordinary hair

            Only blonde

 

            And in a bowl of chicken soup

            It might have gone unnoticed

            Altogether

 

            Stretched out, however, on my pillow

            Without a care in the world

            It was impossible to miss

            And even harder to explain

 

            I was bald at the time

            And it didn’t match my girlfriend’s aubergine

 

            Well, the cold war turned to hot

            Which speeded up the race to end it all

 

            Instead of losing by a nose

            As I had planned

 

            I won

 

            Just by a hair