A Card From Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp

Author:Susannah Clapp
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

The Queen, with ’ticing apples in her hand,

Went out walking to see what she could see.

‘Plump little boy, rosy little boy, come nearer.

Here is an apple to do you good.

Here is a basin to catch your blood.’

She sticks him with a sharp knife

Between the long ribs and the short.

A necklace of beads, blood trinkling down,

In the Queen’s garden, where the apples grow.

Bud, blossom, bloom and bear,

Ready to tear,

So that we shall have apples and cider next year.

Hat-fulls, cap-fulls, three-bushel bag-fulls,

Little heaps under the stairs,

Cider running out of gutter-holes.

Hip, Hip, Hurrah!

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