Tim Burton’s The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories

“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,

He liked her a lot,

He liked her cute figure,

He thought she was hot.

But could a flame ever burn

For a match and a stick?

It did quite literally;

he burned up pretty quick.”

I love the quirkiness that is Tim Burton, although I still refuse to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas because of the fear it caused me as a child. When I found a book of poems written by Tim Burton, I knew it was something I wanted to check out. The poems are short, funny, and usually centered around out-of-this-world birth defects.