A/N: This is my entry into the poetry contest over at the RonStoppabe(dot)net message board, hosted by Grandpa RD. As I said in the summary, its a parody of the classic Edgar Allen Poe poem The Raven. So, here's hoping ya'll enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I'm guessing that The Raven belongs to the estate of Edgar Allen Poe. Not 100 on that though. I am 100 sure that anything involving Kim Possible belongs to Disney.
And don't forget Ran's Three R's: Read, Review, Response!
Once upon a midday sunny, while I struggled with eyes so bleary
Over many a hard and difficult volume of algebraic bore
While nodded, almost sleeping, suddenly there came a beeping.
As if someone gently buzzing, buzzing at my apartment door.
"'Tis my KP," I muttered, "Buzzing at my apartment door."
"Only this and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the humid September
As each crumpled paper wrought its wrath upon my apartment floor
Painfully I was in sorrow; - vainly wished the marrow
From my book, full of sorrow, - sorrow from the Zombie Lore
From the fun and entertaining game whom the designers named Zombie Lore
Played less here, forever more
And the harden mad rustling of the plastic window thing
Shook me - spooked me with terrors never felt before
So that now to calm down my beating heart, I started echoing
'Tis my KP, wanting entry, buzzing at my apartment door.
'Tis a midday KP, wanting entry at my apartment door.
Yeah, that's it - and nothing more.
So now my head grew clearer, the door getting nearer
'Kim,' said I, 'or KP, truly your forgiveness I implore'
'But you see, I was sleeping, then gently you came beeping.
And so quietly you came buzzing, buzzing at my apartment door.
And I wasn't sure I heard you,' and now I opened up the door.
Brightness there, and nothing more.
Deep outside the brightness looking, long I stood there, guessing, speaking
Calling out a name only morals have ever dared to call
But the quiet was unbroken, and the brightness gave no token
And the only words there spoken, was the childlike shouting 'Zombie Lore!"
This I muttered, and a child shouted back the words 'Zombie Lore!'
Most def this, and nothing more.
Back into the apartment turning, oh my stomach within me hurting
Then again I heard the buzzing, a good bit louder than before.
'Surely,' said I, 'surely there is something at my window thingy;
Let me see then what this sitch is, and this mission I'll explore
Let my nerves be still a moment and this mission I'll explore
'Tis a villain, and nothing more
Open here I slid the window, when, with much a grunt and bended elbow
In there climbed a naked mole rat of the friendly days of yore
Not the least of greetings made he; never pausing for a minute did he
But with trash of beef and cheeses, sat upon my apartment floor
Perched upon a wrapper of Nacos, upon my apartment floor
Perched and sat, and nothing more.
This naked rat turning my upset fancy into smiling
By the strange and strict of the attitude it bore
'Though your body may be shorn and shaven, you,' I said, 'surely you are no craven
Tell me what thy graceful name is, on the days humid like shore.
Quote the mole rat 'Play some more!'
Much I marveled at this bald and naked mole rat to hear it say so clearly
Though his answer had little meaning - of little relevance bore;
For we can't help but agreeing that no monkey or roach-like being
Ever was graced with seeing a mole rat upon his apartment floor
Naked or hairy upon the wadded trash upon his apartment floor
With a name like 'Play some more'
But the mole rat, sitting lonely on the crumpled trash, spoke only,
Those three words, as if his demands in those three words he did outpour
Nothing further did he deliver - not one whisker did he shiver
Till then I surely more than uttered 'Like Rufus has dug before
Oh, tomorrow he will leave me; like my hopes have done before
Then the rat said 'Play some more!'
Shaken by the quiet done broken by words so aptly spoken
'Probably,' said I, 'what he said was only learned before'
Taught from some unlucky owner, whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his cash one burden bore
Till the songs of his dwindling greenbacks burden bore
Of 'Play some - play some more'
But the mole rat still turning all my upset soul into smiling
Straight I wheeled a computer chair in front of rat and trash and floor
Then, upon the leather sitting, I betook myself to thinking
Fancy upon fancy, wondering what this nakedness rat of yore
Meant in squeaking 'Play some more'
While I sat there, falling into thinking, but no syllable came speaking
To the rat whose beady eyes now burned into my nylon coated core
This and more I sat subtracting, with my head at ease relaxing
On the high back leather lining that the sun-light gloated o'er
But who's leather purple lining that the sun-light gloated o're
It shall be played, nevermore!
Then, I thought, as the air got denser, much fowled by an unseen passer
Swung by Spidey whose foot-falls upon the creped upon the stucco wall
'Player!' I cried, 'Your programmer have lent you - by these creators he did send you!
Respite - respite and nepenthe from my memories of Zombie Lore!
Give - oh give this nepenthe and forget this Zombie Lore!
Quote the mole rat 'Play some more!'
'Demon!' said I, 'thing of nasty! - demon still if rat or naked! -
Be you programmer sent or be you programmers tossed you here ashore!
Abandoned yet undaunted, in this apartment complex enchanted
On this console by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore
Is there - is there gaming on-line? - tell me - tell me, I implore
Quote the mole rat 'Play some more!'
'Demon!' said I, 'thing of nasty! - demon still if rat or naked! -
By that office that codes beside us, - by that programmer we both adore -
Tell this gamer with sorrow laden if, within distant land of Aidenn
It shall connect strong connection, who the designers named Zombie Lore
Connect a fun and entertaining game who the designers named Zombie Lore
Quote the mole rat 'Play some more!'
'Be that word of our good parting, mole or rat!' I shouted up starting -
'Get you back into the office of the day's humid-like shore!
'Leave no whisker as a token of that phrase you have spoken!
'Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the trash upon my floor!
'Take your teeth from out of my hand and take your body from off my floor!
Quote the mole rat 'Play some more!'
And the mole rat, never twitching, still is sitting, still is sitting
Upon the wadded wrapper of Nacos upon my apartment floor
Both his eyes have the seeming of a Zombie that is scheming
And the sunlight o'er him flowing throws no shadow of his upon the floor
And my homework from out that wrapper that lies there crumpled on the floor
Shall be lifted, nevermore!