Today's poem is by James Doyle
In The Woods
The house wriggled gingerbread and cinnamon.
When the bad witch's mascara ran downthe walls, she turned into the good witch.
"What kind of names are Hansel and Gretel?"she sang, as she patted the children down
for unseemly bulges and led them by the handthrough the security shield. "Dick and Jane
were here yesterday, couldn't wait to followtheir trail of after-dinner mints home. And all
you have are crumbs? Well, let's sit downto a good, healthy meal right now." Underneath
the mascara, the wallpaper crawled with clowns.Their blood-red noses blinked on and off.
"It's one big circus in here all the time."When the witch cracked her whip, a miniature
car somersaulted across the living room. "Get in,get in." Dick and Jane, Barbie and Ken, Romeo
and Juliet, Stella and Stanley. The car was solidwith hundreds of others, compacted into a block
for recycling. "Won't it be hilarious whenthe door opens and they all tumble out at once?"
The witch draped her best smile over the salivato answer the front bell. Helen and Paris
needing the directions to Troy. She swept themright in under her wing. A trail of apple cores
behind them as far back as the beginning.
Copyright © 2009 James Doyle All rights reserved
from MARGIE
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