Edward met her in the dark in Forbidden Park
While taking a walk on a cool, Spring night.
He ignored her when he saw her approaching;
He didn’t want her to think him a predator.
She had no fear of him and said hello
With a beautiful smile and inviting eyes.
Her beauty, magnetic and irresistible drew him in.
They sat on a bench and talked and talked.
Sitting on that bench, he fell deeply in love.
And she made moves he couldn’t resist.
They moved off the bench, became locked in love,
Hidden from any passerby, secluded in underbrush.
When she was done with him, completely sated
To his shock, she began shapeshifting into
Her real form, an alien with a triangular head
Multifaceted eyes, elongated limbs, 8 feet tall.
A dreaded praying mantis-like trantaloid
Whose mating habits resembled the insect.
She consumed a shocked, screaming Edward
Leaving not a trace of his digested remains.
That was on an inauspicious night in June of 2002,
And Edward’s fate remains an unsolved mystery.
Bob Boyd
