Jan 2015
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Rampaging tiger, once gentle girl, spare us our lives!
Reduce us not to blood-spray with your lethal knives!
Lop not
our red
and raw necks
with your wicked and brutal
claws and glinting wry fangs!
You are kindly
and not a bad
monster with a sly
and voracious gut!
Have for
our wet tears
some wee pity!
This we beg, O rakshasa!
Please, remain vegetarian!
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Rampaging tiger, once gentle girl, spare us our lives!
Reduce us not to blood-spray with your lethal knives!
Lop not
our red
and raw necks
with your wicked and brutal
claws and glinting wry fangs!
You are kindly
and not a bad
monster with a sly
and voracious gut!
Have for
our wet tears
some wee pity!
This we beg, O rakshasa!
Please, remain vegetarian!
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This poem is shaped like the Japanese character for death (死 ****) and is dedicated to my pal ShiftingTiger on AllPoetry.com! She happens to have been afflicted by some sort of teenage lycanthropy, so we try to give her moral support and vegetarian encouragement whenever possible.
