04-26-2022, 02:00 AM
Lunch at Grandma's
Rebellious red riding hood strayed off the path,
and wandered where good girls don’t go.
There she met a young stranger who offered
to help carry her load, all the way
to her grandmother’s home.
Without a word, she shyly demurred, and hurried
along on her way. The charming young stranger
was a subtle shape shifter, and got to her grandmother’s
first. He tied up the old lady, assuming her body,
and like a wolf, he laid lying in wait.
Yet red riding hood had a good trick
of her own- one he could never have known:
she, too, could shape shift, and she became
a black bear, then strangled that stranger,
and ate him right down to the bone.
Rebellious red riding hood strayed off the path,
and wandered where good girls don’t go.
There she met a young stranger who offered
to help carry her load, all the way
to her grandmother’s home.
Without a word, she shyly demurred, and hurried
along on her way. The charming young stranger
was a subtle shape shifter, and got to her grandmother’s
first. He tied up the old lady, assuming her body,
and like a wolf, he laid lying in wait.
Yet red riding hood had a good trick
of her own- one he could never have known:
she, too, could shape shift, and she became
a black bear, then strangled that stranger,
and ate him right down to the bone.