Jan Oskar Hansen Poet Sonnet

Fat Woman In a Tree

Fat woman in a tree 

The old carob tree by the roadside had grown big leaning partly 
over the road and trucks often brushed against branches which 
caused the tree or the person in the tree to scream.
We didn`t know a fat woman lived in the crown of the tree it was 
chopped down and its timber used to make headboards and 
kitchen tables: the fat woman who had lost her tree took abode 
in cracks in the wood and she was vengeful.
Those with a wood kitchen table found their food disappearing 
and plates unexpectedly fall to the floor; it got so bad that many
got rid of the table and bought a plastic one, which is the nearest
one can find in a soulless product.

For those who had bought a headboard of that tree, it was worst
plagued by nightmares they struggle to get out of and the evil woman
sat on young men`s chest till they suffocated.
Not all trees are like that only on those where a fat woman lives and
since she is invisible, it is hard to tell which tree.
(Philippine fairy tale)

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