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Literary: Jack-in-the-Box

9/11/2018 08:18:00 PM Media Center 0 Comments

Sitting, patient, calm, secure
Inside the box of this darkness so pure
Empty, cramped, tight, and so black
Inside the box, I am here, I am Jack

If I’m wound up, I want to get out
Springing and spinning and moving about
Don’t turn the crank if you don’t like surprises
In my dear box, Jack, myself, comes and rises

Loud, explosive, cheering, and screeching
Beyond this small box, I am bawling and screaming
Cackling, bouncing, whooping, and howling
Outside the box, I am Jack, who is squalling

Silence, leaps, roars, and then fear
The quietest ones are the scariest, dear
Deafening, startling, finally, truth
Jack-in-the-box, a toy for the youth