If you change your own desires to parent, you wont have to tamper
With a present history which is not yet written. That wont hamper
Your decision. If youre happy, Anna said, Perhaps the sick
(In the mind) are those who think that childless marriage isnt hic.
If you send my way those gossip mongers whove been criticizing
You for living with your own life choices, I will be advising
Them to mind their own collective business, not critiquing yours.
Its mentalities like that which led to Albans wretched wars.
Then with counseling, Alexis did her best at reassuring
Her cute Rover that he neednt use his mental card for scoring
How he rated, stacked against her child. She loved him quite enough.
How they chose to make the most of that was their own private fluff.
Eustace booked another session, which he mainly used up, telling
Anna Lyste why he found Commencroft the giantess compelling.
She said, Maybe you should try the Parallel Dimension Cure.
It could take your mind forever off that womans grand allure.
Its my husbands new discovery. Len Lyste was unrelenting
In attempts (around the Queens concerns) to do some reinventing
Of those amulets. Instead of making one which goes to earth
Or the future or the past, he gave new scientific birth:
Quite by accident, some amulets he made began traversing
To a parallel of our world. Then he learned, with some rehearsing
To control the journeys back and forth. He used one to explore.
If my treatment isnt helping, pay the man. Hell make one more.
So then Eustace bought a Type Two amulet and chose to use it
To explore the parallel of Ambloomes world, where giant shoes fit
On the doppelgangers of the folks he knew of giant size.
If an earth existed also there, it hadnt caught their eyes.
Ambloome-B the Queen was married to a giant, and their offspring
Was a daughter. So there wasnt any kind of twisted scoffing
Such as Ambloome-A and Lee-John faced; but Eustace came to meet
Commencrofts own giant counterpart and found her kind and sweet.
So they dated on her world and then he happily invited
Her for dates upon the world where all the colonies were sighted.
Since no colonies existed on her world, in Ambloomes field,
Commencroft-of-B enjoyed the tiny towns that were revealed.
Eustace introduced his girlfriend at a LATERALDATE convention.
Commencroft-of-B soon kissed him, free of any apprehension
Which her counterpart (the local Commencroft) had always shown.
Then when Commencroft-of-A turned up, the whole shebang was blown.
She took legal action, suing Eustace for objectifying
Her with someone from another world, as though hed been defying
Her rejection of advances he had made to her in vain.
Bryce had lawyer status on that world, which Eustace could retain.
Back on earth he needed extra letters after name, to practice;
And he knew that any chance of recognition would be cactus.
So his wife Admyra helped him start a business in her land.
As solicitor for Eustace he was set to make a stand.
Author's Chapter Notes:
Ambloome and Lee-John consult Anna Lyste about not having children.