The Dragon

There’s a big dragon around your neck

The little girl told him

It’s big and green and covered with blood

He wondered how she could see it

He couldn’t even see it

Hadn’t seen it for years

But the grip never loosened

Not one inch 

Not in six and a half decades

He wore his shameful noose

Strangled by it every day

Boozed and slept with it

Night after night

It doesn’t like you 

The little girl told him

It’s big and mad and won’t stop staring at you

He wondered how she could see it

He couldn’t even remember the last time he’d seen it

But its big dragon-cock was down his throat

And it’s dragon-knife tail sawed his back

and raped his ass

And her claws ripped at him

every moment

with a violent, invisible fury - even strolling along the beach

Nothing say family, he told her quietly, toweling his hands

Like a drug addict and a child molester

As she floated in the bathtub

Skull down

and it was November again