‘Twas’ the night before Christmas

And all thru the house

Not a creature was standing

Not even the house

Hungrier and hungrier

Everything he consumed

No apologies leaking

From this monstrous groom

The presents he lay

Were well-looking graves

And the children he scuttled

Well... they misbehaved.

And lastly his belly

Bloated, hugging with worms

His secrets were coaxed

All his conditions and terms

A heart hard as coal

And a chain round his pets

He scampered into night

Until then to forget