Dragon Drained

"Yet still accused of being but a myth, each dragon wisely pleads the fifth forthwith."  
-- Draconian Measures in the Prevention of Dragon Extinction
 
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On putting dragons one by one to death  
soon none would have to mask their dragon breath,  
or fight the full benighted feudal knight  
in quest of damsels fancied lily-white;  
nor would one dragon dead be pressed to eat  
medieval folks of past-the-due-date meat,  
or be beset by filmdom's mindset set  
till ending up a DreamWorks-trained tame pet;  
and neither would dead dragons feel the shame  
of being Dungeon Masters of acclaim,  
or feel the fear on each Chinese new year  
while bringing up the dancing dragon's rear --  
and no dead dragon yet would need to curse  
man's fetish sexual for dragon verse.  
 
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