Boût Rimé

A story I bring from royal lines of palace balls and feasts gourmet
Revealed secrets of cowardly knights and queens much too fond of creme brulee
as famished proles trudge through blizzards, volcanic floods, and hurricanes
The Brother's Grimm were hired, repairing image, for a more fame-friendly
reason Princess Schizo was locked in her tower
Once in bloom, she found her thrown after her perch was knocked gently by a small
passing asteroid
her beauty made the masses fall faint and they subdued to its power
Charming princes who delighted in her evening demeanor, by morning were chained
to a desk
Seeking more pleasurable conversation, she slipped into their tea something that slightly
resembled an Altoid
Far prior to FDA regulations, these mints often left her guests slightly paranoid
But by darkness they enjoyed her playful flirtations and rare talent of twisting her fine body
into a pretzel
And during hide-and-seek the princess found the perfect chance to run off with her secret Mongdoid.
Later, when forced into her monthly bath, it was discovered that in her place was a robot.
At once the courtyard was alerted of scandal and half-priced wiener-schnitzel
and the hermit realized London wasn't really so cloudy, it was merely his breath
on the window pane
(The harsh truth of which resulted in a terrible carpet stain)
Meanwhile, the princess forgets her former life of fame
Of course in these tales a witch or two always thickens the plot
So while the town is all gossip and the view picturesque
And peasant beauties dream of princes and palace acclaim
The hag has joined the hermit
Chasing princess reclining on the lap of her Mongolian lover
whose face exerted signs of unending grotesque.

Sr. Poetry (WN #14)

Definition: Bout- Rimes is French for "rhymed ends." A bouts- rimes poem is created by one person's making up a list of rhymed words and giving it to another person, who in turn writes the lines that end with those rhymes, in the same order in which they were given.
(Ed. note: Not sure where the rhymes went... but I do remember creating the list of words as a class.)