ESCAPE!

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NEW PROMPT: Write a short story or poem about being trapped inside the Winchester Mystery House after hours. What happens to you, and how do you escape???

ESCAPE!

Went to see a Mysy'ry Manson; went to see it after dark.
Touring houses is my hobby: went to see it on a lark!

Was too tired to be touring; really had to take a nap.
Went to see exquisite living--how the elegant adapt

to the early barren west, in perfect, gorgeous house
with victorian appointments and decor straight from the south!

Antebellum decorations; architecture to the hilt:
stopped to look at every detail; wondered how it had been built!

with its steps up to the ceiling; ornate visions for its call;
ornate sight to its creator, a true thinker for us all!

I then found a beam of sunlight on a tall soft antique bed;
curled up for just a cat-nap, soon was sleeping like the dead!

Heard a bell off in the distance; knew it was the set alarm,
'fore the lock-up; automatic setting arm!

Bolted upright, went out running,looking for the nearest exit--closed!
See the night looming brfore me: sorry I had ever dosed!

Spied a window open slightly pushed it further just to see--
just too high to jump out safely--had to be a brave monkey!!!

Clambered out so hesitantly, not sure I could land alive--
then I spied some etched-in footholds--was so happy that I cried!

They were there for building repairs, very handy but not safe,
but when faced with my night locked in, I thought I would tempt my fate!

Stepped out onnto my first stone perch--thank God for my tennis shoes!!
Terrified, I crawled to safety--not the night that I would choose!!!