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Life’s Too Grimm Already

All the fairytale violence Life’s too Grimm already s o i c a n’ t i n a l l g o o d C O N S C I O U S N E S S
Let Red Riding Hood bloody-hack the wolf to death… Let the sleeping beauty jam an apple down the witch’s throat… Let Hansel and Gretal pull out all the witch’s teeth without putting her to sleep… Let Cinderella make her stepmother step in shards of glass while she whistles and laughs…
n o n o n o Life’s too Grimm already I just can’t…

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Date: 5/22/2025 1:00:00 AM
This is perfectly amazing, this needs to be sent to Readers Digest or something, somewhere! I love it! Yikes, the stepmother walking through shards of glass that made me Grimace. You did this so well, and it is another fave! I can't wait to share this poem with my grown daughters we change fairy tales to kinder tales (as well as nursery rhymes, those can be a bit horrifying "...and down will come cradle baby and all? NO!) Those fairy tales were grim indeed, makes you wonder! Great job Kim :)
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 5/22/2025 5:32:00 AM
I would sing that lullaby to the kids and end with “right in my arms” …Thank you so much, BJ!
Date: 5/21/2025 2:14:00 PM
Woah, this has so much irony- I respect this so much, a fav- you always come up with something so unique!! I couldn't either. <3 :)
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 5/21/2025 3:03:00 PM
Thank you! lol..I couldn’t either… hugs
Date: 5/21/2025 9:53:00 AM
Love this Kim. The play on the Grimm brothers and their fairy tales with todays violent world is excellent.
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 5/21/2025 12:18:00 PM
Thank you, Oliver!
Date: 5/20/2025 11:10:00 AM
I love it, love it, love it, agree, agree, agree, oh the delivery, the delivery, the delivery - what a package you gave to me. So, to be clear, NOT for contest? I, too, don't much wanna visit the cruel and/or comeuppance part of fairytales, but do LOVE 2 sometimes-ingredients: bird's ironing, squirrels folding and other domestics done by creatures while all sing and being kissed by the Prince ... CayCay
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 5/21/2025 8:48:00 AM
Thank you CayCay! I did enter the contest. Hugs
Date: 5/20/2025 7:56:00 AM
Everybody just let all those kids be eaten because they got big heads and teased too much... WOLF! WOLF! WOLF! Strike 3! Yerrr... Out!
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 5/20/2025 10:25:00 AM
lol…no no no ;)
Date: 5/20/2025 5:54:00 AM
Kim, your poem is abolutely wonderful and I love your layout too, a FAV, blessings~
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 5/20/2025 6:13:00 AM
Thank you so much!
Date: 5/20/2025 5:52:00 AM
Unique take on the contest, Kim. Your images remind me of things like in the book that I think was called Twisted Fairy Tales
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 5/20/2025 6:13:00 AM
Thank you, Andrea!
Date: 5/20/2025 5:49:00 AM
- Fun one :) - hugs
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 5/20/2025 6:13:00 AM
Glad you like!

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