a concern

ever wanted
2 read
an old (classic) novel
U thought
might be
interesting
+
maybe not
be
2
boring
?
something like
(Don Quixote)
(The Three Musketeers)
(Frankstein)
(Ivanhoe)
and
such
as
?
but something
was specifically
blocking
you
?
here's
a concept:
(picture)
curved
wooden
bridge
over
flowing
water
channel,
straight
outta
Monet.
let's see,
U wanted
2 maybe read
(Frankenstein)
right?
U know
enough
about it,
right?
(from blurbs
+
Cliff's notes
+
such
as
?)
2 maybe
use it 4
this concept?
♪pickin' on the Brits!♪
NOW
look up/at
a portrait
of Mary Shelley
+
imagine her
smiling
+
waving
2 U
across that
bridge.
she's genuinely
happy U
chose
her book
+
is waiting
just 4 U
2 join her
+
read it
with U.
(oo yeah!)

so U start
2 cross
and...

YEA-
AUU-
URRR-
GGHH!!!

suddenly
out from
under the
bridge
crawls a
giant angry
dust mite
tarped
in a
Union Jack
and ridden
by
Prof. Nigel 'Pengie' Farton, Esq.,
of Oxtonridge,
dry,
formal,
tweedy
+
whose whole
molecular
(supercilious)
being
is made
up of
fine
floating
dust particles
(like these)
.................
only floatier
+
dustier
+
not
actually
decimals/
periods.
+
 then he
bellows from
his formless
mouth
((I
AM
THE
PREFACE!!!!
U SHALL
NOT ENJOY THIS
UNTIL U
KNOW
ME
RATHER
PROFUSELY!!!!))
then he speaks of:
-a (somehow) much,
much,
longer
+
drier
+
boring
version
of the
1816
ghost story contest
-a "brief" history
of Gothic horror
but
by the time
he starts
2 speak
of
galvanism
Mary Shelley
looks so
sour.
(+
can U
blame her
?)
she snorts,
throws up
her hands
+
upon
turning 2 go
xclaims
((soddit,
I'm done
with this
shite!!
PERCY,
I'VE THINK
I'VE BLOODY
LOST
ANOTHER
ONE!!!))
that's how
she really
talked then
(swear)

+
yes,
U could,
if U
wanted 2,
always learn
more from THE
PREFACE
+/or
that 2
defeat THE
PREFACE
U can actually
walk past
him
(cough!
achoo!)
+
meet
good ol'
Mary
Shelley!

really!



so,

what
wouldst
thou
choose
?


DB/11.2019