A/N: Welcome, all, to the seventh chapter of Ramblings of a Twilighter! I thought I'd give you all another one of my junk poems, considering that's probably why you started reading.
And here's the clincher on this one: it's not merely mocking twilight, it's mocking fanfic's version! (My apologies, to people who have stories along these lines. It's not like I don't like them, it's just that there's a lot of them, and everything there is too much of MUST BE MOCKED!!) Hehe. Sorry about that.
Disclaimer: If I were Stephenie Meyer, do you think I would be a half gigantic fan and half cynicist who writes about it? Well, perhaps ... believe what you may.
On the Art of a Twilight Cliche
Edward the player's out with the guys
Some days he's bad-boy druggie clubbin',
And others he's just bored and hides his "sensitive self"
Away with his piano
Beneath messy bronze hair and a well-sculpted face
And a desire to "do."
Sometimes Bella's the goodie sometimes she's not
Been messed up depressed up
A klutz, a geek
An Emo, a freak
Popular, but still shy
Just another little girl inside, about ready to cry
Whether she's been there or has yet to go
All Bellas need an Edward to show
Whether it's love or whether it's hate
Or maybe he's come just a little too late
There's always someone in her thoughts
Bookworm, goth girl,
Love on her mind.
Emo Jasper screaming at the wall
HIs wife won't let him go to Hot Topic for his black eyeliner
Or maybe he's the quiet one, the dreamer
The guitarist, but never the singer.
Always the nice one, the sensitive
Bella's protector but never her brother
Bella's best friend but never her lover.
Or maybe Jasper the prankster,
Conned in by Emmett
Always getting his
From Edward and Alice.
Prank-loving Emmett, the vamp
Sometimes with Jasper and sometimes against
Sometimes with pink and Hannah's CDs
Sometimes a human the football team's muscle
Bella's big strong brother, humbled only by Rosalie.
Hardly ever serious, never
Losing his love for muscles, Rose, and videogames.
Pretty-pixie Alice,
Wearing only the best
And on a diet
All-sugar, all the time
Maybe she's like one of those little wind-up toys
That just never winds down?
Bella's BFF, the trio of popularity
The extrovert, the new girl
Edward's sis and Jasper's world.
Fire to his water,
Bull-terrier who never lets go
Pixie with powers, you'd better watch
Out.
The fashion adviser, whether they like it or not,
Knows all about love, except for herself.
Lovely Rosie
The haute couture of bitch
Rarely sympathized with, at least as a vampire
Otherwise that shy irresistible mechanic
With only Bella and Alice in the world
Or maybe one of the popular three, guess what part
She is?
Human it's Emmett
All the time anywhere
Not afraid to flaunt him
But when he messes up?
She's out of there.
Otherwise their relationship
Is quite a piece of work
An overgrown boy
And a bitter old girl.
He plays, she hits
He screams, she relents
She sulks, he tries
To win her back.
When it comes to love,
It's a good thing
She has him.
Esme the mother
Loves both her pretend sons and her daughters
Gives to Bella, too
You'd think since she doesn't bark
There's no bite to be found,
But if you read some more fanfic
You're wrong on both accounts.
There's an Esme out there who could rival Alice for voice,
The house her daughter's wardrobe
With cookies, of course.
Carlisle's there, the two mature parents
They have their fights, too,
And sweet romantic moments,
But through all of it you know
There isn't any way
That Esme's looking for love.
And of course we have Carlisle
The calm father figure,
So angelic
He can spend every day of his eternity
Steeped in the scent of human blood.
He likes to rap, to roleplay, to be obsessed
With cleaning,
To have
The most embarrassing secrets,
Excepting, of course, for Edward and
Emmett.
Acts like a father, best ever doctor,
Afraid of squirrels sometimes,
Mocked for his accent
Taken in
By pranking Emmett and crazy
Aro.
Esme's his life, though he sometimes forgets
But never over another, just over a mess
They've had their fights and sweet touches,
A team
And more than that, a pair
Of people who know the true meaning of
'Together forever.'
Meet the Twilight crew, the cast
If you will,
Of so many stories,
Fluffy and terrible and pranking and sick,
Bella and Edward's problems
For the world to see.
Go crazy with them, use what's already been done
And build, a crazy caricature
Of a family stuck together for far too long.
Or maybe a new meeting, sweet little humans
With their high school and college dramas and traumas.
Or maybe
Something new,
Audacious
Daring to defy
The standards of Twilight, set
By the fanfics of people
Just like you.
Okay, not quite sure what happened ... but I liked it. You people better review after this! My first two chapters in forever and only two reviews, and they're from new people! Thank you very much, by the way. You know who you are.
If you want to see what quirky thing silly old me will come up with next, you'd better review ... I think I'll hold the next chapter hostage and you have to pay ransom. I demand five reviews, at least. Is that so much to ask?
