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- Once upon a 4 AM dreary, while I made pudding weak and weary,
- Over a quaint and curious pudding recipe of forgotten lore,
- While I stirred, nearly napping, suddenly there came a yapping,
- Twas my wife, gently yapping, yapping at me from the door.
- "Tis 4 AM in the morn, what are you doing up?" She implored,
- "I've lost control of my life," I muttered. "Only this, and nothing more."
- Ah, distinctly I requite, 'twas but the middle of the night
- Suddenly there was a light, which wrought its ghost upon the floor
- Somberly I sighed in sorrow, knowing it was almost the morrow,
- I spied a girl devoid of sorrow, standing in my bedroom door.
- Angelica, not half as tall as any bedroom door,
- wished for pudding and nothing more.
- And so my soul grew weaker, beginning to feel bleaker,
- "Angelica," said I, "I shall do as you implore."
- And now here I am stirring, circling, slowly learning,
- What it means to be awake at four in the morn
- Control, I hold no more.
- Deep into the pudding peering, I stood there wondering, fearing
- Doubting, feeling feels no mortal dared to feel before
- But the stirring was unbroken, my silence gave no token
- And the only word there spoken was the wretched number "four".
- This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the number "four",
- Only this, and never more.
- Inside, my soul was turning,
- My heart within me burning,
- Soon again I heard the yapping at my kitchen door
- "Stu," it spoke, so gently and rasping, beckoning to days of yore,
- "Why are you still up, at the hour of four?"
- "Why must you be awake at the morning hour of four?"
- I've lost control, and nothing more.
- I've lost control, for evermore.
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