The extremity of her sensitivity
impressed a richly idle princely family,
of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be

by the absurd softness of the ample beddings,
not to mention the pillow piles aggravating
her much lamented acrophobic dis-ease.


[from the poem, Princess and the Pea]

Joseph Stanton

Tag: poetry poem fairy-tales princess-and-the-pea

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