Fausto Zonaro, Italian
Cinderella Returning Her Coach To the Rental Agency the Next Morning, 1889
Oil on canvas
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/// In a pumpkin patch, Lucy van Pelt,
all grown up now, barefooted and svelte,
seeks her young brother Linus,
(who quotes Thomas Aquinas).
On “The Great Pumpkin,” he’s too long dwelt.
/// He was always a person of faith,
yet this All-Hallows-Eve is the eighth
he has waited all night
certain he will catch sight
of a huge orange sentient wraith.
/// Despite Linus’s Christian belief,
this obsession has brought Lucy grief,
concern, pain and confusion.
His odd pagan delusion
makes him dress in a pumpkin motif.
/// So she’s staging a shock intervention.
To speak truth to him is her intention.
Other friends have come down.
Schroeder and Charlie Brown
and her pumpkin will get his attention.
/// They will sit in a circle and pray,
while the boys ensure Linus will stay.
She’ll make him kick his habit;
when he reaches to grab it,
Lucy snatches the pumpkin away.
/// Midnight struck and the mice became small.
(They’d been horses all night, I recall.)
They ran off in alarm.
Can’t be kept on the farm
after seeing the grand Prince’s Ball.
/// She’d lost one slipper (part of a pair),
it’s unlikely she’d go on to wear
just the one which remains.
Cinderella has brains;
wouldn’t hop in glass— kept her feet bare.