Cinderalla Wants Her Slipper Back – by Jolen Whitworth
Reading Time: 2 minutes
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Jolen Whitworth is an American born award winning poet who lives with her English husband in West Yorkshire. Jolen has been a personal friend for quite a long while and, for me, this poem really typifies her characteristic of always fighting for the underdog. I have featured one other of her poems too: "In The Shape Of A Hart" which will also be found among my picks.
Cinderalla Wants Her Slipper Back The midnight toll passed hours ago, it’s time to crawl into a cold bed, red-eyed and agitated. She’ll stay silent and grab the Valium, while you become paranoid and do one more line. She wants to run a marathon, shop for shoes, tell the world how good her skin feels, right up until it ends. Then she’s a broken- winged pixie, careening toward the pit. That damn clock and its smug wide-open chimes announce a full-throated conclusion to another intolerable day. She feels like her ugly stepsisters, mangled under the royal carriage wheels. Twisted in sweat-soaked silk sheets, suppressing screams, she stares at the nothing filling the room and repeats the litany: Tomorrow will be different. She barely resembles that girl you promised a happily-ever-after, before this travesty of over-sized handbags, designer poison and constant nasal-drip. The mice hate wearing tuxedos, she wants to exchange the corvette for a pumpkin, and if you could pour that champagne out of her glass slipper, Cinderella would like it back. © Jolen Whitworth 2023
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