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The following can also be found in the book The Heatseeker. Click here to learn more, and to download a free electronic copy; or click here for the rules to writing the type of poetry shown here.
The story begins,
Half a long time ago
existed a beautiful princess slash biologist.
Her skin was fair and her test tubes were
easily the cleanest in the entire green kingdom.
And one day the
tempest beauty befriended a boy who smelled of
silver and nicotine, and
each day the
eager small boy would go
kidnap the princess and bite her
earlobe to keep her locked in the ivory tower.
Round the earth the moon passed many times
while the princess watched
over the ear-biting boy and fell in love.
Never did she expect
this horrible calamity.
Lust was all she had
expected, but eventually the ear was
torn right away from her head and she
met the boy in the stairwell and said,
'Exit this ivory tower,
won't you? Run with me where the moon never
ever sets but instead
drowns in the
inky haze of our love.'
The boy didn't know how to
cope with this sudden change in the princess, so
under his shirt he unlocked the door where
terrible little monsters roamed.
'Make me understand,' the boy said. 'Why is the
earless princess dancing and
calling my name,
longing to run away and
elope where the moon never sets
and act as if she and I are in love?'
'Never mind her,' the monster said. 'She'll only
impeach your soaring heart.'
'Burn her,' the monster said. 'Burn and let me
lick up the flames.
Eight years you
damned yourself to this tower
and it is high time you
never look back, so set the princess on fire.
Douse her in kerosene and never look back.'
But the boy hesitated,
longing to let the princess escape the tower. And
escape she did. And never
did she look back.