Rapunzel Revisited

Once upon a time our tale begins with

a man and a woman without child.

They yearned and hungered and longed

for one, but their expectation was exiled.

One day the woman strolled to the window

and gazed upon a serene garden.

Delectable rampus caught her eye

and her hunger she could not pardon.

Moping like a two year old she declared

she'd feast on the rampus or die.

Her husband consented to get her the plant

in order to satisfy.

"But!" he declared, " I shall not steal the rampus

from the witch!"

To the market he traveled and fetched

the plant and returned in the pitch.

Eventually they conceived and gave

birth to a child.

They raised her in love with no witches

involved and no feathers riled!