"Where the Wild Knights Are"
Date:    97-03-20 23:14:09 EST

Where the Wild Knights Are"
Apologies to Maurice Sendak
adapted by Marcia Tucker


The night Nicholas vamped out and made mischief of one kind

and another

his father called him "WILD KNIGHT"
and Nicholas said "I'LL DRINK YOUR BLOOD"
so he was sent to his tower in the castle without any dinner.


That very night in Nicholas's tower a night sky grew

and grew

and grew until his ceiling hung with stars
and the walls became the heavens all around

and a fleet floated by with a private light-sealed starship for Nicholas
and he sailed off through the night

and in and out of weeks
and almost over a year
to where the wild knights are.

And when he came to the planet where the wild vampire knights are
they roared their terrible roars, and flashed their terrible fangs,
and rolled their terrible eyes, and showed their terrible swords

till Nicholas said "BE STILL!"
and whammied them with the magic trick

of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once
and they were frightened and called him the most wild knight of all

and made him king of all the wild knights.

"And now," cried Nicholas, "let the wild rumpus start!"

(wild vampire knights and Nicholas flying about,
scaring the peasantry, whammying the clergy,
tossing each other around in wild vampire abandon)

"Now stop!" Nicholas said and sent the wild knights off to bed
without feeding. And Nicholas the king of all wild knights was lonely
and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Then all around from across the galaxy
he smelled good blood to feed upon
so he gave up being king of where the wild knights are.

But the wild knights cried, "Oh, please don't go--
we'll drink your blood - we love you so!"
And Nicholas said, "No!"

The wild vampire knights roared their terrible roars, and
flashed their terrible fangs, and rolled their terrible eyes,
and showed their terrible swords but Nicholas stepped into
his private starship and waved good-bye

and flew back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a night

and into the night of his very own tower
where he found a bottle of blood waiting for him

and it was still hot.