"George Dance" <georgedance04@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The Dwarf Beneath the Bed
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> Lie back and close your eyes, my babe,
> Relax your weary head
> And please try not to think about
> The Dwarf Beneath the Bed.
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> An evil, cruel, misshapen Dwarf
> Lives right here in your room.
> He's hiding in the furthest cracks
> And muttering in the gloom.
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> He hates the light, he hates the truth,
> He hates the whole world, too;
> The one thing that he hates the most
> Is pretty babes like you.
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> He wants to kill us all, my dear,
> Because he hates us so;
> Tonight he just might slit your throat
> And you will never know.
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> Mama and I will be asleep
> So there will be no hearer
> When Dwarfie parts your jugular vein
> With fragments of your mirror.
>
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> Now go to sleep, my darling, please
> Forget all that I've said.
> Pray God you do not think about
> The Dwarf before you're dead!
Vaguely Audenesque, huh?
(Or was that WH Davies with a whiff of Robert Frost...).
or was it the charge of the light brigade
set up on a knife blade?
-D.
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