That is an excellent poem. My favorite I've gotten so far was:
dark wish
eating away
again.
Thanks for playing.
Nice to see another take on the Bagel Quest idea. I am really enjoying the game and working on building up to try to upgrade. I wanted to mention a bug I encountered. I've had times when trying to take a chest back through the portal that there was a glitch and the chest shows as empty, but no items are shown and I can't do anything else. Closing and restarting the game puts me back before I used that portal.
The answer is that right now he is just a mad king...so no preferences. But then poetry can be subjective. My plan is to continue working on the game and give him things that he values together. So grouping words into longer vs shorter words, or like subjectively harder vs softer or warmer vs cooler words and giving him a day by day preference based on that. Ultimately I think it will still come off as...random, but the goal is to have a hidden rule with it.
I appreciated how readable to graphics were given the limited pixels. I enjoyed playing, though on my second run-through there was some glitch or something where it wouldn't let me pick up the cows after the first couple. But then when I tried playing another time I didn't encounter the same issue. It didn't impact my enjoyment, but I wanted to mention it to you.