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Rapunzel's Tower Takes Off

A play on the fairy tale with two endings

How many miles of hair to hide

those weeping eyes,

the tower's roots released

and rose into the skies-

her locks dragged through thin clouds,

her little window's square

let tendril's gold spill down

as if she fished for air.

But nothing climbed each drifting length,

but careless mist,

the ether had blue eyes-

she breathed a mouth to kiss,

then leaning toward arms' longing, past the frame,

she fell out, plunging through her mane,

the love she'd never touch or know,

a dream gone flat in miles below,

Ending One: How many miles of hair to hide those weeping eyes,

root's snagging knot dragged sobbing soul's eternal skies,

if you should look and see a hairy square go by,

you'll know Rapunzel's silly tale's the reason why.

OR Ending Two:

They found large clumps of hair

for blocks around the site,

a woman, bald, in rescue's arms,

smiled with delight,

he told her she had nearly died,

she giggled, snuggled him and tried

to toss her hair back and be pert,

but felt her bald head's heart desert,

she'd never show her face or flirt,

until it grew back, so she ran-

leaving stymied lust in man;

he'd always liked his women bare,

t'was rare to find them with no hair,

he almost yelled but didn't dare,

in fact, he never knew her name.

 

So, those are the two different endings. which one is better? More funny or original or fitting the poem or a surprise- or you just liked it?.....Gotta keep up with those 6 week trims....Catherine

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