Dragons

- 1 May 1989

Dragons are not the only beasts

God forgot to make, and which, therefore,

man had, himself, to invent. The Phoenix,

the Griffon, the Sphinx, the Unicorn,

and such nightworks as the Vampire

and the Werewolf, are all

in the nature of the Imagined Kingdom.

And what good, in the long run, is Dominion

unless it is given over all

necessary beasts, real and imagined?

Therefore the Dragon, which—f it is true

that man must imagine at least one shape

moving alive for every dream in him—

images that dark in the jungle of dendrites

one man must run from and another attack,

to which every daughter must be thrown once,

and out of which any man may think to marry

a princess.

All these are realities, but

if you actually see a Dragon, check carefully

which reality you have been living in.

To do so

may be very much to your advantage.

Anon