What They Said
by Elisa P. Black

"Oh, look, Nick!" yelled Nat behind tons of requests
For results of her research when they might as well guess.
"I knew it! I knew it!" boomed Schanke with pride.
"Now why don't you come for some dinner inside?"
"Bloodwurst," smiled Myra,"I made it for you.
But it seems that with garlic, Don likes it, too."
Jenny continued with,"Oh, Uncle Nick,
Come here and help me with History, quick!"
"Nicholas, Nicholas," mocked LaCroix with a sneer,
"Come hunting with me; it's much more fun this year!"
"Nichola," growled Janette, indignantly,
"We must go away for a century or three."
"I know you're a good man. Use your powers a good way,
And it will convince them," assured Cohen,"to let you stay."
"Stake me and burn me!" all his friends would complain.
"This life is much worse than the ultimate pain!"
"Take me. Oh, take me," a stranger would say.
"I wish to live forever and a day."
"Tell us. Please, tell us," the children did cry,
"What is it like to be able to fly?"
"Stay back!" warned the ones who while wearing a cross,
Would hold a big stake and drink garlic sauce.
"Sue him. I'll sue him," declared one crook from his cell,
But the rest were too scared of the "creature from hell."
"Look at him! Look at this!" the scientists wondered;
And in their excitement, they tore him asunder.
Not a sound came from the dark-suited men
Who stole the remains and vanished again
By order of an old white-rug-topped hog
Who lived in a self-induced patented smog.
"Enough!" The Enforcers then proceeded to work
With all world governments to make all seem a quirk.
"Damn it," screamed Mulder in utter despair,
And Scully just hugged him with sweet, loving care.