A TALE OF TWO EXPECTATIONS

Miss Havisham
clearing the cobwebs
escapes the book

"Wot de. . " says Dickens
"I don't like the way I am written!"
Miss H has left the page

"You can stuff yer great expectations
up yer. . .! she screams at him
... "Now...now . . .language...language!"

Miss Havisham is having a spring clean
of her mind
turning over a new leaf

"I'm flesh and blood!" she claims
"Not just this thing
made of words!"

Dickens pins her
to the page
with words

"You'll read as you
are written!" he demands
"By God madam...who's the author here!"

Miss H peering out
from behind the bars
of her print

Miss H
walking up and down
the cage of her page

Miss H
haunts the words
she appears in

Miss H
demanding a different
ending

Miss H
setting herself alight
the smell of burning words

Dickens falls asleep
she elopes with Heathcliff
from that other book

Heathcliff and Miss H
break up it was
never gonna work

Heathcliff still
carrying a torch
for "Cathy. . !"

whilst Dickens snores
she has it off with
Pip

Dickens awakes
writes the final word
she's trapped within THE END