Two young science students at uni were doing experiment work, as the day

Began to diminish the sunlight supply through the windows, and skies became grey.

"So what made you choose to learn science?" asked Megan, whose hands were with work still engaged,

The two of them just started first year, and both of the students were only teenaged.

"Exposure to fairytales left me desirous of  making myself just an inch

In height; so a lady's nice mouth could then lick me and swallow me whole, for a cinch."

But, rather than laugh, she invented a mixture of chemicals, which, if exact,

Would do what he wanted, if given a period of 25 years to react.

She showed him where she planned to live when she'd bought it and said, "In the future, come seek

Me out , but the uni hall's calling us down for a friendly dance, cheek touching cheek."

At Christmas, he sent her a card, "from full-sized me," and wondered what her card would say.

"I wish I could shrink you and eat you," she wrote, "But enjoy Christmas time anyway."

Not willing to spend all those years in long waiting, he placed himself into deep freeze,

Suspending his aging, while he slept it off, and the 25 years passed with ease.

The ice chamber timer went off in the future. He woke up, and found her address.

The phone book helped him pay a visit one morning, in hopes that his size would be less.

Now older, still willing, she took him to lunch, now in awe that her friend was 18.

"I guess you'll taste nicer, still youthful," she said, with a smile, which looked proudly serene.

Her formula worked, and the boy was reduced, and they went to a nice picnic spot,

Where Megan sat down and soon happily gobbled the Tom Thumb the real world forgot.

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