YOUTH IS TASTED ON THE TONGUE

At 16 young Eben designed a device which would rapidly miniaturize

The boy and then teleport him to the place of his choosing at much reduced size.

He used it at random, and found himself suddenly out in a lady’s backyard.

The 21 year old housewife soon detected his presence; and his way was barred.

She captured the boy, and went into her kitchen, and taunted the boy, with great mirth,

Announcing intentions to eat him for lunch. So he looked at her favourable girth.

She warmed up the oven, and placed him inside it, until he was warm, but not hot.

He wondered if he would remain in her thoughts, or become the meal she soon forgot.

She went to the table, with him on a plate, and sat down, with her huge threatening tongue

Preparing to act as a path to her throat and her stomach, where fate had now flung

His future. He looked at her opening mouth, as she lifted him into the air.

Now laughing, she soon placed him into her mouth; and she gobbled him down without care.

He settled himself in her stomach, enjoying the comforts of its inner wall,

Until, to his utter surprise, the device brought him home with its auto-recall,

Restoring his size. Then the boy was reluctant to go on a second shrink test.

He thought of the woman who’d willingly gulped him to somewhere quite close to her chest.

At twenty he went to a party and met her again. She had been through divorce,

But still enjoyed life, thinking she had consumed him forever, devoid of remorse.

She wasn’t aware, that the boy at this party had once been diminutive prey,

Which she had enjoyed, in the past, when he’d gone to her backyard, so tiny, that day.

She asked the boy out on a date, and he welcomed the chance to enjoy a nice kiss.

Then after three months, he proposed, and he knew that it would be most surely remiss

Of him, not to tell her how they’d met before. So he did, and enjoyed the riposte.

She said, “If you don’t wish to marry me now, then the love that we have will be lost.”

“I do,” said the boy, “So I wanted to tell you the truth of that day when I shrank.

You’ve made me so happy, since we started dating, that I can remember your prank,

With joy, since the mouth you made use of, to eat me, is now free to kiss me instead.”

So, once they’d prolonged their engagement, the boy and the love of his young life were wed.

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(for Amanda, who wanted to shrink and eat me. Sorry I can’t agree, but here’s your fantasy brought to life as is best possible).