The O RLY Owl
Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary,
Upon this world I most abhor,
There came an unfamiliar knock, a tap at my chamber door.
"Tis a visitor," I muttered, "a guest I must endure."
"Why has he come at this late hour, to knock upon my door?"
He is unwanted, unwanted and nothing more.
Still he tapped insistently, until I could endure no more.
"I am coming," I implored,
then limped to my chamber door and thrust it open,
To find an owl, and nothing more.
"What relief, an unwelcome guest I took you for."
"O RLY?" questioned the owl, "O RLY?" and nothing more.
"YA RLY," I replied, feeling quite despondent,
Thinking that the owl was just now the respondent,
The one who had just replied to my comment.
"How lonely can this hour be, for my mind to play such tricks on me?"
"I cannot speak to owls, and now I must look silly."
Quoth the owl, "O RLY?"
"YA RLY," I replied, thinking again the bird had spoken,
And I began to believe that my mind was broken.
But the owl just looked up at me and stared.
"Alas!" I cried, "If I'm insane, then I do not care."
"For that is from the view of others, whom I despair."
Quoth the owl, "O RLY?"
"YA RLY," I replied, sure this time that the owl could speak,
He gazed at me with wide eyes, closing his beak.
"This owl understands me," I quietly thought to myself.
"He intelligently interrogates me, the cunning little elf." [Elf owl, no some lame rhyme]
"You are wise, different from anyone else excluding myself"
Quoth the owl, "O RLY?"
"NO WAI!" I shouted with a scowl,
For as clever as he seemed he was only an owl.
More of a parrot, whom I began to abhor.
He seemed wise once, but only repeated the same two words.
I angrily exclaimed, "I want to see you no more."
Quoth the owl, "O RLY?"
"YA RLY," I exclaimed angrily, for now I was furious.
"When you first came, I found myself curious,"
"But you're just like everyone else. Now get out! I want to see you no more!"
I approached the owl, my unwelcome visitor, and he flew away,
Leaving me by myself, alone in the doorway.
Only me, and no one more.
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