Poem: Raven's Choice (Fullmetal Alchemist/Balance of Power)

[nebroadwe]

Title: Raven's Choice
Fandom: FMA (anime version, in the Balance of Power post-series AU)
Character(s): Ed, OC (for a certain value of O, again :-)
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Warnings: None. Retells a specific but not particularly spoilery moment in BoP chapter 16.
A/N: I have no idea where this poem came from; I wrote it as fast as I could to get it out of the way so I could go back to what I was doing when it interrupted me. :-) Crossposted from nebroadwe to cbs_crackfic and oh, what the heck, also to fm_alchemist and fullservicefma. The worst anyone can do is ignore me, right?

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Raven's Choice

Every raven knows Raven, thief
And trickster -- is Raven, sometimes:
Gods know not knowing's a relief;
Want's simpler -- food, sex, shiny dimes --
Fly, roost, wait for it --
For what?
Wait
Till want's darling comes walking by,
Plastic toggles bobbing like bait
In sun-bright hair. Claw free the tie;
Dodge the steel fingers' counterclaim.
No matter how cheap or tiny,
What's his he'll hold, come wind, come rain.
That's why Raven
sees you,
wants you,
hunts you,
dogs you
-- you're so shiny.

[Disclaimers: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) was created by Arakawa Hiromu and is serialized monthly in Shonen Gangan (Square Enix); the anime of the same title was directed by Mizushima Seiji and story-edited by Aikawa Sho. Copyright for these properties is held by Arakawa Hiromu, Square Enix, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Aniplex, Bones, and dentsu. All rights reserved.]

Comments

[c-b-syndrome.livejournal.com]

You'd think BoP would be more likely to produce limerick than lyric, but nooo ... :-)

We try! XD