 When I was six I told my mother,
“I want a doll with real hair.
I'm going to ask my fairy godmother.”
“Don't bother her for such a small thing,” she admonished.
When I was twelve I told her,
“I want a pair of high heels. I'm going to ask…”
“Don't bother asking for such a silly thing.”
When I was seventeen I shouted,
“I want a new mother!”
“Don't ask your fairy godmother,” she replied,
“she's not listening.”
When I was twenty-one I almost wished for a husband,
but Mother stopped me.
“Don't bother, she can't find one for you.”
When I was thirty-five, with a husband and children,
I was going to wish for time for just me,
but I didn't have the time.
When I was forty-five
I decided I wanted to be a writer,
and made a wish for time and talent.
> POOF! <
 My Fairy Godmother arrived in a cloud of smoke.
“Fairy Godmother, will you turn me into a writer?”
“Why did you wait so long?
I have arthritis and poor eyesight, so I'm retiring.
You'll have to get it for yourself, kid!”
Cara Alson © 8/05
Cara's poems, essays, short stories and humor have appeared in print, on CDRom and online. Print publications include California Writers Club, San Fernando Valley Branch Anthologies (2002 and 2003) ; the Los Angeles Daily News/Valley Section (December 2005) "Holiday Memories" essay contest; ByLine magazine, (February 2006) and Cara's first chapbook of poetry, Heartache and Whimsy . Her work appears on the Kedco CDRoms "Millennium Dawn" and "Crystal Dawn." Sites online include Motherbird, Art Villa, Clever Magazine, Autumn Leaves, Poetry Life & Times and Cara's own site, Poetry Patchwork . She has won Honorable Mentions for her poetry in The Writers' Ink Guild & Arts Council's Poetry Contest (2002). In 2004 she was awarded 3rd Place in the Children's /Juvenile contest at the East of Eden Writer's Conference (CWC, South Bay Branch); also in 2004 she placed 3rd Place for Poetry and 1st Place for Non-Fiction at the Writer's Conference held by the San Fernando Valley Branch, CWC.
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