Fairy Tale Ending

by Howie Good

It’s years later. The Seven Dwarfs were last seen down in West Texas, unvaccinated and with filth in their beards. Prince Charming has lost his boyish good looks to drink. Media images and mentions of the late Queen have been scrubbed from the internet. Only dark, tangled roots remain of childhood. Snow White, corrupt and bloated, strenuously avoids all mirrors.

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Howie Good is a professor emeritus at SUNY New Paltz whose newest poetry books, The Dark and Akimbo, are available from Sacred Parasite, a Berlin-based publisher.