ever after

Rapunzel's a lesbian now, got a crew cut.
Sleeping Beauty snorts coke for that up-all-night high,
and Snow White,
so I've heard,
takes it up the arse.

You can't rescue a damsel in distress any more,
can't even hold a door for one.
Sorry.
The dragon's in a zoo,
staring sadly between bars at little children
who coo and giggle nervously
until their parents usher them away.

Prince Charming traded his steed
for a BMW. He eyes up the guy
who lives next door. Baby, he says.
Baby.

"I want to go to the ball!"
spits Cinderella at her father,
the king. Storms upstairs,
slams her door. It reverberates
throughout the house.

She throws away her glass slippers,
wears Doc Martens instead.