reflections on my glasses

Reflection on My Glasses  In fairy tales, we learn about the rich  and the poor the wealthy suitor gets the princess's hand The poor cobbler will always be mending shoes  In the "glass slipper," the poor girl fits the shoe and marries the prince, while her sister gets a job in the Guardian Newspaper getting paid for  griping about men  In Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf is working class trying to get power among the haves becomes a cropper and drowns in the well Our instructions start at school when we are adults find inequality perfectly normal I have not written, anything today is my birthday, and that is depressing I remember all my birthdays from age two until 15, but as a teenager, I scoffed at birthdays unless it was a day for left-wingers and a socialist party's day, later when I became a deluded communist I remembered Joseph Stalin's day My dog knew when it was her birthday and got a juicy steak, alas, this noble animal didn't know she was getting elderly as well