Chapter 3
NARRATOR
Two innocent wives
in the rocket of their ancestors
travel, not far, to beneath the mountain hill.
They trudge up its steepish side to peer down
into its interior where a ladder meets them.
A rocket made from ancestral materials
lifts them off away from their two husbands
(who are too busy at work with their mathematical,
numeric graphs, which are very important).
The ladies lift off
and fly up, as if carried in a tin can,
excited inside -
over to a mountain side,
whereupon, they land and vacate their rocket.
Stepping upon new land
and looking up to the top
of an enormous mountain mound,
they exclaim, “Let’s go up!”
Chapter 4
Two Wives Join the Women’s Club
or Meet the Huge Black Prince
NARRATOR
Two wives join the Women’s Club or meet
the huge, black Prince.
In both areas of discovery they are found,
and, they discover something new there.
In one, they descend and are invited
into the Horse and Women’s Club Extraordinaire.
And, in the other area concerning the mountain,
they find a large entrapped beetle -
no - I mean, a Prince,
dressed up in a blackish cloak
remorsefully reciting a poetry thing
or a personal memory.
He’s stranded, left, abandoned -
without our knowing.
They, the Two Wives, are small and tiny
compared to his enrapturous, standing figure.
He is big.
TWO WIVES
Why?
Why so big inside the mountain?
TWO WIVES
We’re coming upon the naked Prince!
He is huge, humungous.
Yes, big. He is so big;
but smaller in our minds.
Important?
He is lazy, relaxing,
treading water and books,
comfortable with table lamp and snacks.
A studious but messy gypsy.
A messy gypsy in his home.
Old and worn out are his baggy pantaloons.
So what are his cares?
NARRATOR
Perhaps, the Two Wives see to that:
to whatever careless ways there are that he has;
and to whatever he can glean out of his books and studies
(not much, probably, I would suppose).
TWO WIVES
Whatever is his purpose there?
Now, we meet him after all of these years.
He’s fattened.
What do you expect?
THE PRINCE
I’ve found myself, at last!
TWO WIVES
Really? Just as we’ve found you?
THE PRINCE
Yes!
TWO WIVES
Let’s go get out of here! (Out of the mountain, they mean)
THE PRINCE
Yes! I’ll leave all my little, not much, stuff here.
TWO WIVES
Okay! Come out.
See the twilight.
Be reborn into the humans’ realm -
our realm - tonight!
Get some beer!
Yes!
PRINCE, aside, to himself
I am not sure what will happen with me
but I’ll go and come along
with the two mighty, miniature daughters:
the women who climbed up my mountain
and let me in and will let me out.
They’ve worked on me
and prepared splendidly.
I’ll just go along.
(He leaves)
NARRATOR
Later, they get help from the prisoner that they freed.
He’s bigger than them and leads the way
and helps, somehow.
(End of Chapter 4)
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