Tonight's Poet Corner: Lifelong Companion

Lifelong Companion
by Belinda Roddie

I like that my pet dragon
scares away the pigeons
so they don't wake me up
at six AM on Saturday
with their incessant warbling,

their morse code
passing messages back and forth
before my dragon incinerates their
communication links. Go back

to smoke signals, you winged
rats. My winged beauty will
help me sleep better, despite
his soot-tinged snoring.

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