A fountain of tears, at once, was dried
when father explained. (At least he tried.)
He thumped me upside my head,
and this is what he kindly said:
When Riding Hood is seen
reading a magazine,
and Goldilocks is lounging there,
having dyed her golden hair;
when you find Gretal wasn't lost,
that you were double-crossed,
and Santa Claus is shamelessly corrupt,
that's a sign you're growing up.
All the fairytale violence
Life’s too Grimm already
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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…
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Life’s too Grimm already
I just can’t…
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
Hansel and Gretal
Little Red Riding Hood
Parallels....
Each, and every one!?
To a another life
Born out of time
Through tears
And, through plights
Of ones darkest nights?!
Once upon a time
Twisted by rhyme
Metamorphosized....
~ Fairy Tales ~
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They, did, become!?
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