The Wolf's View

I was thinking the other day

how parents dutifully, consistently
read to their small children
the fairy tale starring me.

I’ve enjoyed the notoriety, bask in the glow

of the squirmy little morsels all scared
to think of me, my teeth,  and my grasp
as I gobble them up.

That doesn’t worry anyone, especially

not me.  I like the part coming up the most.
It’s about how I took advantage of a bedridden
granny and ate her for dinner. Makes the little
ones shiver.

The story has been told in different

ways…the outcome is the same. I pose
as granny then so I can gobble up
the little girl in red, too.  Oh, yummy.

I don’t think anyone believes the part

about the woodsmen saving them both
and cutting the granny from my belly?
And granny lives? Oh, please! 

(write a poem in the voice of a fairy tale character)