Princess, Pirate, and Angel
Shari O’Brien
I was a fairy princess
that year on Halloween,
my last before I retired
from candy-induced highs
and earnest school yard parades.
I was joined by a peg-legged pirate
and an angel with wings of foil,
believing youth was forever,
but inpatient to grow up.
The pirate sailed the South Seas
and lost a limb in Viet Nam,
the angel flew to Heaven
too many years before her time,
and as for me, I haven’t worn
a tiara since that day.
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