Budding romance;
Nothing sweeter.
“Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater”
Stolen chances;
Love’s depleter.
“Had a wife and couldn’t keep her.”
Acting rash;
His thoughts are hell.
“He put her in a pumpkin shell.”
The crimson flash
bid her farewell.
“There he kept her very well."
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