• Long, long time ago
    There was a girl
    So lovely, so ethereal—
    And so naïve
    To love all she knew.

    stupid girl,
    trusting, so trusting.

    Trust betrayed, never is she
    To regain love of all Beings
    That once gave a beautiful girl
    Laughs to share,
    Hands to hold,
    Warmth to embrace,
    Shoulders upon to cry.
    They rip her to shreds, merciless.

    Clap clap clap they, the audience, cheer
    And she falls—air hence swift sweeps up
    Long tangled locks, inflates red rose cheeks,
    Twists slender limbs grotesque.

    smack—pavement and flesh meet.

    Long, long time ago
    She laughed and loved but
    Now she lay broken.