Imaginary Fabulous Beasts

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If you want emerald mermen, unicorns

Of ivory, Galahads in siver white

Bright armor, whitest roses lacking thorns

As lovers; if a man who does not bite,

A man who is a dragon with no scales,

Heraldic lion with embroidered fangs

Of wool, or only tamed down killer whales

Whom Wendy in her Never Land has pangs

For in her little mother role is whom

You want; if men you want have toothless charms

And nothing more, whose genitals are plume

(It softest parts) with hairless underarms;

  Then here’s some hard advice:  grow up, my dear.

    Move on to some outlandish fairy sphere.