Janet and I

Have two items

On our agenda

For the evening --

To watch the rest

Of Mighty Joe Young,

Which we'd started

Two days ago,

And to continue

Listening to the

Audio adventures of

Jack Flanders in

The Fourth Tower of Inverness

Early in the movie,

Two nights before,

The intrepid, graying

Entrepeneur

Who brings back Joe

Is sitting at

An outdoor table

Sipping tea,

Wearing a pith helmet --

This prompts me to

Make a cryptic comment

For Janet to

Remember this

I need to be cryptic

Because she hasn't yet

Experienced

Jack's amazing meeting

With his uncle,

Sir Henry Jowls,

Who sits at

An outdoor table

In a pith helmet,

Sipping mint tea

We witness Joe's

Stirring rescue

Of the orphans

At the burning

Children's home

Near the film's end,

Where he climbs

An incredible tree

That reaches to

The home's roof,

Several stories up

When Mighty Joe

Starts back down

A final time,

Clutching a child

In his awesome hand,

Flames begin licking

Up the trunk

And drive him

To retreat

Higher and higher

Up the tree

   *    *    *

Resuming with

Our travels in

The Fourth Tower,

Jack offends

A magical woman

And her tears

Cause a flood --

Jack climbs a tree

To escape the waters,

But they keep rising

And he must go on,

Higher and higher

Up the seemingly

Topless tree