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Author's Note: In order to fully appreciate this, it helps to have read "Romeo and Juliet". This is a parody of the prologue, which is written in the form of a Shakespearean Sonnet. This means there are fourteen lines, ten syllables to each, following the iambic pentameter pattern (think of a heartbeat). This was written as a joke for a class at school, so don't take it too seriously.
Two cages, both lined with but newspaper
In someone's kitchen where we lay our scene
These lovebirds go on a death marked caper
Until one she-bird chokes on a lima bean
From forth the gilded cages of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed finches take to wing
Whose airbourne trails are filled with lover's woes
Until their adventures end with mourning
The feathered flight of their true death-crossed love
And the continuance of iron cage
Which, but a golden key held by a dove
Will not be held to their torrential rage
Which if you with feathered wing attend
What here shall fall will surely rise again.
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