Saturday, June 23, 2018

What Rapunzel Learned



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When Rapunzel was remanded for those many weeks
and months and years to live up in the highest reaches
of that tower, what mattered wasn’t that the prince learned
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how to climb her hair up to her head as if it were a ladder –
no, her grievances about this cruelty were screamed out
very loud across the Alps; documented evidence concurs
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it shattered eardrums. She’d shed no tears from altitude,
had no fear of heights. Neither had she much desire to reside
below. What interested Rapunzel was enclosure. Her much
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renowned composure she accounted for by one delight
to which indentured life exposed her that she never knew
was possible until she lived those lovely solo hours in
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a tower, with nobody to glower at her or to glower at.
She didn’t even miss her cat. What she learned was how
she could engender grace in semi-open chambers that
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existed solely to provide a single seat. With increasing art
and frequency, she learned to make a place for secrecy.
Her neat designs for comfortable fancy huts that shut away
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while showcasing her exultation of the Ideal Chair are very
rare, and coveted world-wide. Mostly she’d be glad that
we’ll forget her doltish husband, but will recollect the bride.
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