Austin Mitchell
Language Arts - Per 2
Foreign phrases
Where the persona non grata are
Based on the book Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak
The night Max wore his wolf suit and made gaffs one kind and another.
His mother called him "persona non grata" and Max said I'm a gourmand and I'll eat you up!
a faux pas
So he was sent to bed sanseating anything.
That very night in Max's milieu a forest grew and grew and grewad infinitum until his ceiling hung with vines au natureland the walls became the world all around
And an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max
And with wanderlustheschlepped off through night and day
And in and out of weeks and almost over a year
to where the persona non gratasreside.
And when he came to the place where the persona non gratas are
With a joie de vivre
they roared with their terrible roars
and gnashed with their terrible teeth
and rolled their terrible eyes
and showed their terrible claws
with much chutzpah
till Max said "Basta!"
And tamed them with the avantguardemagic trick
of staring into all their yellow eyes
without blinking once
and they were frightened and called him
the wunderkind, creme de la creme, je ne sais quoi of wild things
and made him czar of all persona non gratas.
"And now" cried Max
let the Blitzkrieg begin!"
"Now stop!" Max said
and sent the wild things off to bed sans supper.
And Max, the paterfamilias of all wild things
lost his raison d'etre
and wanted to be where someone had a good rapport with him.
Then all around from far away
across the world
he smelled good things to eat
and missed his dolce vita
so he gave up being king of where the wild things are.
C'est la vie
But the wild things cried
"O please don't go, we'll eat you up, we love you so, keep the status quo!"
And Max said "Nyet"
The wild things roared their terrible roars
and gnashed their terrible teeth
and rolled their terrible eyes
and showed their terrible claws
with much sturm und drang
but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye
"Adios!"
and sailed back
over a year and in and out of weeks
and through a day
and , ergo, into his very own room
his terra firma
where he found his gourmetsupper waiting for him
and it was still hot.
HakunaMatata!