VINCENT

Vincent Malloy is sevenyears old
He’s always polite and does what he’s told
For a boy his age, he’s considerate and nice
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price
　　　　
He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats
Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats
There he could reflect on the horrors he’s invented
And wander dark hallways, alone and tormented
　　　　
Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum
　　　　
He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So he and his horrible zombie dog
Could go searching for victims in the London fog
　　　　
His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimes
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the times
While other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go!
Vincent’s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe
　　　　
One night, while reading a gruesome tale
He read a passage that made him turn pale
　　　　
Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive!
He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was his mother’s flower bed
　　　　
His mother sent Vincent off to his room
He knew he’d been banished to the tower of doom
Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life
Alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife
　　　　
While alone and insane encased in his tomb
Vincent’s mother burst suddenly into the room 　She said: “If youwant to, you can go out and play
It’s sunny outside, and a beautiful day”
　　　　
Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn’t speak
The years of isolation had made him quite weak
So he took out some ***** and scrawled with a pen:
“I am possessed by this house, and can never leave itagain”

His mother said: “You’renot possessed, and you’re not almost dead

These games that you playare all in your head
You’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent Malloy
You’re not tormented or insane, you’re just a young boy
You’re seven years old and you are my son
I want you to get outside and have some real fun.”
　　　　

Her anger now spent, shewalked out through the hall
And while Vincent backed slowly against the wall
The room started to swell, to shiver and creak
His horrid insanity had reached its peak
　　　　
He saw Abercrombie, his zombie slave
And heard his wife call from beyond the grave
She spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demands
While, through cracking walls, reached skeleton hands
　　　　
Every horror in his life that had crept through hisdreams

Swept his mad laughter toterrified screams!
To escape the madness, he reached for the door
But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor
　　　　
His voice was soft and very slow
As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe:
　　　　
“and my soul from out that shadow