Bite Sized Bits of Fic

any. any. Sonatina (extract), Rubén Darío. (http://www.poesi.as/index604.htm)

The princess is sad, what is wrong with the princess?
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The princess won't laugh. The princess won't feel.
The princess follows the wandering thread of a wandering dream.
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She wants to be a bird, wants to be a butterfly,
to have soft wings and fly under the skies.
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