A TALE OF TWO EXPECTATIONS
Miss Havisham
clearing the cobwebs
escapes the book
'Wot de.. ' says Dickens
'I don't like the way I am written! '
Miss H has left the page
'You can stuff yer great expectations
up yer...! she screams at him
... 'Now...now...language...language! '
Miss Havisham is having a spring clean
of her mind
turning over a new leaf
'I'm flesh and blood! ' she claims
'Not just this thing
made of words! '
Dickens pins her
to the page
with words
'You'll read as you
are written! ' he demands
'By God madam...who's the author here! '
Miss H peering out
from behind the bars
of her print
Miss H
walking up and down
the cage of her page
Miss H
haunts the words
she appears in
Miss H
demanding a different
ending
Miss H
setting herself alight
the smell of burning words
Dickens falls asleep
she elopes with Heathcliff
from that other book
Heathcliff and Miss H
break up it was
never gonna work
Heathcliff still
carrying a torch
for 'Cathy..! '
whilst Dickens snores
she has it off with
Pip
Dickens awakes
writes the final word
she's trapped within THE END
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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