I’d like a purple dragon

to come and live with me.

We could play every morning

or paddle in the sea.

But if the Purple Dragon

turned blue when he was cold.

His mother would soon scold him,

to say “Do what you’re told!”

Breath out your dreaded dragon’s breath

and wrap it round and round.

Then soon you will be warm again

and hungry I’ll be bound.

Eat up your dragon supper.

Eat all your veggies too.

So Caitlin can come visiting

to warm you through and through.

David Garlick, Vancouver, 1994