CINDERELLA



Our primal Europathic pubescent girl myth
all dressed up in charming patriarchy
& yet carrier of the good witch
fairy godmother virus
which the Vatican almost eradicated
with its feudal bloodletting & auto-de-fé flames but here survives infecting even valley girls
with some wild lost scent of the goddess.

The story Chinese originally
9th century Taoist tale
told with spice & Marco Polo'd
back to the Mediterranean.

How yin yang
with luck it goes
from rags to riches
gutters to golden slippers

& all too soon is gone
at the midnight hour
when we freeze in place
Delphic statuary wreathed
& lyred in our own polished fable
facing the forever eternal now.
Happily ever after
or not.

art goodtimes
union of street poets
vincent st. john local / colorado plateau / aztlán
kuksu brigade (ret.) / san francisco