titles are over rated anyways

• The Bad Beginning: To Beatrice -
• darling, dearest, dead.
• The Reptile Room: For Beatrice -
• My love for you shall live forever.
• You, however, did not.
• The Wide Window: For Beatrice –
• I would much prefer it if you were alive and well.
• The Miserable Mill: To Beatrice –
• My love flew like a butterfly
• Until death swooped down like a bat
• As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said--
• "That's the end of that."
• The Austere Academy: For Beatrice –
• You will always be in my heart,
• In my mind,
• And in your grave.
• The Ersatz Elevator: For Beatrice –
• When we met my life began,
• Soon afterward, yours ended.
• The Vile Village: For Beatrice –
• When we were together I felt breathless.
• Now you are.
• The Hostile Hospital: For Beatrice –
• Summer without you is as cold as winter.
• Winter without you is even colder.
• The Carnivorous Carnival: For Beatrice –
• Our love broke my heart,
• and stopped yours.
• The Slippery Slope: For Beatrice –
• When we first met, you were pretty, and I was lonely.
• Now I am pretty lonely.
• The Grim Grotto: For Beatrice –
• Dead women tell no tales.
• Sad men write them down.
• The Penultimate Peril: For Beatrice -
• No one could extinguish my love,
• or your house.
• The End: For Beatrice -
• I cherished, you perished.
• The world's been nightmarished

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