Red Riding Hood

RED RIDING HOOD

“Fairy tales are the purest

and simplest expression of

collective unconscious psychic

processes”—Marie-Louise von Franz

The Interpretation of Fairy Tales  

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A transgressive shift—

In Jungian fairy tale telling

Telling the story again

This time instead of—

Evil Stepmother Witch

Doing Hansel & Gretel in

It’s Red Riding Hood—

And the Big Bad Wolf story

A la Marie-Louise von Franz

A gay Jungian retelling—

Shadow in bedroom drag

What a big Nose, my dear

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Deeply embedded in—

The Grimms Brothers fairy tale

The classical outré oeuvre

New archetypal images—

Forming themselves with

Tres Jungian jouissance 

The Wolf as the Shadow—

Red Riding Hood as me

My Journey thru the Woods

Homonormative narrative—

Gay fairy tale retellings

Red Riding Hood & the Wolf

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Once upon a time—

There was this kid who

Didn’t know who he was

Everybody else knew—

The Evil Old Witch knew

His First Grade Teacher

She knew he was Bad—

The minute she saw him

She simply hated queers

A gay fairy tale tells—

Its own story in its own

Faggy fairytale way

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Red Riding Hood—

Didn’t know he was gay

That he was born that way

It’s an Old Story—

Journey thru Dark Woods

The Shadow posing in drag

How does a gay kid—

Come out of the Closet

Is there a Wolf inside?

Seeing oneself as a—

Big Bad Wolf there

Doing Weimar Drag?

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His gay Anima—

Disguising herself as

As Evil Grandmother

“My, oh my!!!—

What a Big Nose

You’ve got, Grandma!!!”

Gay sexuality—

In Bedroom Burlesque

Unconscious Cabaret

“Falling in love, again”—

Marlene Dietrich sings

“I can’t help it”

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“Things get better”—

Older gays are telling

Younger gays now

Things aren’t as—

Closeted as they used

To be before gay lib

Fairytale retelling—

Takes time to Actualize

In new Storytelling ways

Let Synchronicities—

Sink in and guide your

Own Intuitive Story