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Golden Ticket
Golden Ticket
Golden Ticket
Karyn Indursky
July 2012
Once upon a time
Sleeping Beauty decided
to visit Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory...
Chocolate chip cupcakes
made her drool
like Snoopy.
Blueberry flowers had
her licking her fingers
like Muttley.
Cherry-plum trees
had her climbing
into clouds of Cotton Candy.
She found a rainbow of Skittles
and slid down it
like a banister.
Laughing all the way down
she found herself in
a pool of Chocolate.
She climbed out on
a ladder of Licorice
and awaiting her was
a munchkin man.
He befriended her,
but she couldn't help herself
from eating him
like an Oompah Loompah Donut.
Along came Mary Popkins
to check out the inventory
of Candy-Cane umbrellas,
but Sleeping Beauty
saw her as Gobsters.
At the end of the gate
Sleeping Beauty was stuffed
to the brim and
left with nothing, but
the tooth-fairy ready
to fix her cavities
with golden crowns.
