Letters

Mother Goose died

after making love to Shakespeare’s ghost,

she was buried in a coffin

shaped like a text book.

 

The cradle dreams

of embryonic catharsis

were butchered by an academic assassin,

shoved in an envelope

where the outside was labeled

with the alphabet of degrees.

 

Erudite tattoos

scar for life,

but they never stop

the resurrection of Fairy Godmothers

from the crypt of isms.