I did a thing. It's a poem (villanelle!) and made me want to bash my head in. I tried to do the villanelle in iambic pentameter (ten beats per line, stress on the second syllable, etc.), but it didn't word — I think eleven beats per line with me. I wanted to do that because, well, Romeo and Juliet. Halla! *headdesk* I'm too nerdy and too white to do that. Jay Baruchel could do better.
Anyway, Nelson Mandela died today. Let's take a moment to remember him and what he's done. (beat) Okay, on to the rest of out lives!
Disclaimer: Standard issue disclaimer.
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
By iOc
Day 5: Juliet
'Twas a love forbidden only in their eyes.
Two friends who naught but else declined,
For fear of being kept in a world of lies.
She, the Tooth Fairy, none other than a queen.
He, a Phooka, the last of his foreign kind.
'Twas a love forbidden only in their eyes.
Both, in all things and subjects of love, were green.
Comrades, of good cheer, saw how they were twined,
For fear of being kept in a world of lies.
They kept their silence, never making a scene.
None of their platonic friends seemed to mind,
'Twas a love forbidden only in their eyes.
They ran to a place in a world unseen,
And left their bodies for their friends to find,
For fear of being kept in a world of lies.
She, the Tooth Fairy, none other than a queen.
He, a Phooka, the last of his foreign kind.
'Twas a love forbidden only in their eyes,
For fear of being kept in a world of lies.
So, yeah. That's a villanelle. If you couldn't tell: Bunnymund and Tooth were the main characters playing Romeo and Juliet. I'll… expand on my thoughts about R&J in the tumblr post that I put up. (Seriously, check out the posts for this. They're all tagged as "plague rat advent calendar." I'm icyandthefrostbites on tumblr.)
Don't ask me why I saw SweetTooth as Romeo and Juliet, I just did. Actually, the original idea I had for this I scrapped because it was too silly. I'm glad I changed it.
