by Jerry Ratch
Sleeping Beauty was left sleeping on a plane
They tried to wake her but couldn't
so they locked her in for the night
When she got up in the middle of the night
she was completely disoriented
and staggered up the aisle to the bathroom
to take a pee in a tiny little closet
“Where am I?” she kept whining “Where am I?”
Ordinarily Sleeping Beauty did not whine
so you can understand how extraordinary
the circumstances
After finding herself locked in the plane
she sat down in the pilot's seat
and began pushing buttons and fondling
the controls
Suddenly the engines fired up
She taxied that puppy out onto the runway
and radioed the control tower
“Control Tower? This is Sleeping Beauty.
Permission to take off?”
“Yeah, right,” was all they said from the tower
They were smoking a giant doobie
because it was the middle of the night
and it seemed like the planet had stopped spinning
Also they thought someone was joking
until Sleeping Beauty powered up and took off
“Okay, May Day, May Day, we got Sleeping Beauty
circling over Manhattan and don't know
how to get her down! May Day! May Day!”
“Tell her to splash down in the Hudson River,”
said an unknown voice over the intercom
probably her handsome prince in a rowboat below
“It's been done before. Don't worry. Piece of cake.
But next time watch out for the Magic Geese.”
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Funny and original poem, and SCARY--It's great how you call her Sleeping Beauty... very visual on that plane... and those controllers better keep their eyes on the computers
This is so fun. I love how this spins out. I hope Sleeping Beauty lights out for the territories, Jerry. She's gonna need a lot more room than Manhattan. Very delightful, sir.
Thanks, Susan and D'Arcy!
Very fun and right in the moment. Neat juxtaposition of fairy tale and the news of the day. The modern world meets the black forest.
Thanks, Darryl.
This is great! So playful, but also with an undercurrent of something else, I don't quite know what, but not all light and happiness after all. Come to think of it, kind of like the fairy tales in the first place. So clever; I love this!
Thank you, Michelle!