"Fairy Tale at 13 o'clock"
A twisted, crooked mechanical wind-up doll plots a rebllion
Against a spiral staircase that keep winding upward forever
Jade and amber and onyx
Cruel Alice and her friends are fixated on a mermaid's lifeless,
limp wings
And an angel's glass scales[note: as in fish scales.]
They wait at the shore of an ocean of cellophane where a sea
pig sleeps
A nightmare painted with beautiful, violent colors leaves a jet
black music box with a broken lock in an attic
And drips sin onto the pale sole of a boy engrossed in forbidden
daydreams.
It crouches
And cruelly plucks out the sickeningly sharp, opaque splinter.
Mother Goose of 13 o'clock. Labyrinth of time. Getting lost.
The door will never open, but no one notices.
Jareth*
Community Member