Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Dragon.....

You know that it's there...that dragon...
That beast....
welling up inside of you...
It clothes itself in a costume that looks very much like EXCITEMENT....HAPPINESS....
And it even goes so far as to parade a seeming aura of innocence draping over its 'frail' shoulders...
The dragon eats its greens and it presumably goes to bed early.....like a GOOD GIRL....
It dresses in PINK....like a LADY....
She makes like she's all grown up and elegant...
and CALM....
But make NO MISTAKE, my friends....
That pesky dragon is FROTHING at the bit...
Waiting to JUMP .....Head first....
into the GLORIOUS pool of iniquity...
into the ever-present VAT of bubbling, RED SOUP....
Hey....I'm just alerting you...
Don't shoot the messenger....
She's a GOOD GIRL too.....

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