Pinocchio

Pinocchio grew up
You knew would
He would have to
After he became a real boy
He became a real brat
In boarding school
Though how could that be?
With Jiminy cricket
And Geppetto's wooden stool
He learnt some honesty
And truth
Actually he saved up
Cobbling together some money
And went off to study
Psycho-analysis
In Vienna under Freud
Jung was his Mentor
He treated others for the good
He made them better
Those who believed they were
Made of wood
And had wooden hearts that would
Never feel
He turned them on his lathe
Chiseled away, until their slithers
Of wood peel
Began to bleed
And he knew he had touched a nerve
And finally they could feel

Others were so light headed
They were strung to the ceiling
They were puppets of another power
But one without moral feeling
And he made them walk up the wall
He made them stand
And he made them fall
Until Dr Pinocchio made the snip
With his knife
And circumcised they'd go
Back home to their wife

So he had a good racket going
This shrink of a boy man
The only thing that got his goat
Was to think of his toy woman
She was no fun anymore
And he felt deflated
Every time they went to bed
She was far from elated

Of all the men of this world
I had to marry one once made of wood
You jump when we sit by the fireside
You think you might catch light
And when we're in the pool
You never swim just float driftwood -like

But most of all in bed when I check your trunk
I find the tree has been fossilized
And like a petrified stone its sunk
So come on my woodsman
Show me what your made of

So things went on like this for some time
It happened to be lucky for Pinocchio
That he had married Cinderella
And that he had made her
Instead of a glass slipper
Wooden clogs
She became the dutch woman from the paintings
The happy wife
And it was all windmills and canals
When they moved to Holland

And that pesky Prince stopped chasing her
He remained in Denmark
Biting his finger nails
Still afraid of the dark
But that is why the pumpkin prince
Had to vanish at midnight
He had to feed his dog
That would howl for his bone
And he let his hound bark
Until he got home

So by and large Cinderella was
Happier with her new shoe
She stopped sweeping up the ashes
For now fires were a no no
Unfortunately ten years later
She was to fall in love again
With a dancer of the go go
And she went went
Because she can can