[ WP ] I met myself today . He drove a white van . With his motor running , he knocked on my door and said , `` Hello old me . Meet the new you . Please step into our van . ''

Old words echoed inside my head, one *Do n't you talk to strangers. * 
 But as I stared he smiled and said, `` I'm stranger, not a danger.'' 
 *You can read my mind? * I thought. But he continued on. 
 `` Stranger danger? Nothing stranger! But danger I not be.'' 
 
 `` Hang on here, something there, not quite right it sounds to me.'' 
 `` I or you, no I.O.U's between us can be spared'' 
 
 `` Okay now I'm pretty sure, you're not making any sense.'' 
 `` Cents are for the piggy bank. A piggy are not we.'' 
 
 `` What the fuck. You're not me. What the hell is this?'' 
 `` Come into my van and see, truth from this mystery.'' 
 
 `` Hell no.'' said I and turned away, but behind me was another. 
 `` Porky porky! Porky porky!'' behind the voice grew fiercer. 
 
 `` A piggy are not we!'' said one. `` We are not a piggy!'' 
 `` We are not a piggy?'' I asked. `` We are not a piggy!'' 
 
 `` OINK OINK OINK OINK!'' Into the van I was thrown. 
 
 The van was lit with purple light. Bare, save a single bone. 
 I held it shaking in my fist, glossy white it glowed. 
 A femur or a fibula, of that I was not sure. 
 But bits of gristle, scratches many, the light did not obscure. 
 
 `` I am not a piggy,'' I said. `` A piggy I am not.'' 
 Hours later the van did stop before an open lot. 
 
 Arrayed out there were little clumps of brick, of wood, and straw. 
 `` Build brother! Build or be served raw!'' 
 Too late it was, I saw them then. Eyes gleaming, glowing red. 
 The wolf already waiting was, ready to be fed. 
 
 The others built, with fevered guilt, as I slowly stepped away. 
 The sounds of ripping carnage I still remember to this day. 
 
 Stranger things have happened, yes. Of that I'm pretty sure. 
 Treasured tales from stymied lips, dressed up in haute couture. 
 But my story's mine, that fateful day, a van came up to me. 
 `` A piggy I shall never be.'' I whisper. `` Me a piggy will not be.'' 

