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Bogdan_Dragos

facing the dark corner

the old lady didn’t mind being

called crazy

or being laughed at for

spending her days

alone

in her small cottage

facing the dark corner

of the room and

talking to

her dead daughter

encouraging her to eat up

and grow up

and complimenting her on the good

looks she’d gained

“Oh, I bet the boys are all dropping

dead in your wake, hehe. Look

at those legs. So slim and long and

deadly. You’re a beauty

among beauties, my dear. Here, have another

one. Eat up to grow up. You’re gonna

have hundreds of strong, beautiful

children, hehe.”

The neighbors and the world

could keep calling her crazy, she

knew she was just very happy

She grabbed another grasshopper from

a jar and ripped its hind legs

and placed it

on the spider’s web

“Here’s another one, dear. Eat up

and grow up, hehe.”

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