Grimm Revisited

Mention of fairytales reminded me of Anne Sexton's book, Transformations, published in 1971. In it she has a selection of poems that rewrite some of the Grimm's fairytales. They are wonderfully scardonic.  My favorite is "Cinderella." Here's the final stanza:

Cinderella and the prince
lived, they say, happily ever after,
like two dolls in a museum case
never bothered by diapers or dust,
never arguing over the timing of an egg,
never telling the same story twice,
never getting a middle-aged spread,
their darling smiles pasted on for eternity.
Regular Bobbsey Twins.
That story.

Here's a link where you can find the entire poem:

http://www.units.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanities/sexton.htm