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# Fairy Tale Endings
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/fairy-tale-endings/
- Published: 2025-11-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Done with baby, done with little, done with mermaid at the last. Every step will hurt: bones brittle but the ocean is her past and her future? Balls and princes. Takes another step... She winces.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Done with baby, done with little,  
done with mermaid at the last.  
Every step will hurt: bones brittle  
but the ocean is her past  
and her future? Balls and princes.  
Takes another step... She winces.

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**Author notes:** photo thanks to Shelf Editions