we talked about how we would get to the moon
purple bats will come to us at night
and we'll follow them to a cave
where they have hidden a spaceship
the spaceship will take us to the moon
and once on the moon we will stuff fake mice with sleeping pills
which the owls will eat and then fall asleep on the ground
and then we will scissor their heads off
and roast them and eat them
and we will ride horses
and then shoot them and eat them
and the king of the moon will tell us that no shooting horses is allowed
and he'll hang us by our toes over a pit of cobras
but we'll say the magic word, "toothache!"
which will make the cobras calm
and then we will poke out the alien king's eyeballs
and he will be blind and slip and fall into a pit of hot lava
and we will be kings of the moon
and we'll have tattoos of ourselves on our bellies
and the boys will be our servants
and build us palaces and pools
and we'll have peacocks
and penguins to be our friends
and we'll read stories, and swim, and sing
we'll eat strawberries so delicious
that they make us dance when we eat them
and we'll ride ostriches across the desert
and plant palm trees
and wear fluffy gowns
and we'll order the boys to bring us lemonade and specialty bat cakes
and when it rains, it rains chocolate
and if the boys don't do as we say, we'll roast them and eat boy chicken
or send them to the alien police
who will gobble them up raw
and we'll never have school or church
and we'll eat toast with cinnamon and sugar.
and to reward the bats that gave us the spaceship
we will give them bat babies
and we will bask in the sun all day long
and we will be famous artists
and rock stars
everyone will love our artwork
it will be in all the museums
and we will be the most popular people in all the universe
and we will eat anything that doesn't do what we want
because we
are the kings
of the moon
