Dragons

TTTO Julia Ecklar’s “Tribbles”

The books are all repetitive

The dreams are all the same

The fantasy is constant now

I’m not sure who to blame

The shelves, all bright and full now

The genre’s going strong

But these are all so boring

And try hard to be long –

Dragons in all fantasy

Their roars so fill the air

Their fires flame all citizens

They fly from here to there

So far they’ve gotten so cliche

And all the authors write

About them, and their ravages

The knights, with dragons fight

Now as reader, am I quite obliged

To suffer this? What for

The books with elves and dragons all,

My god, they’re such a bore

Dragons, now in sf too,

McCaffrey, you would dare

Sully this new genre too

Where dragons were so rare

Some have cool tricks, like acid breath or

Hypnotic, scary gaze

In earthsea they all speak true speech

In some books they just laze

There’s no race much more common

Except for, maybe, elves

In singles, or in families,

In books packed on the shelves

Now fans are trying very hard

To not get bored so fast

They keep on reading more and more

Of spells the dragons cast

Dragons in our Harry slash

In Harry het as well

And I wish I could kill them all

When they hatch from the shell

Our books would not be so cliche

New monsters, they would find

We’d have some more diversity

We’d break out of this bind

But I shall never get my wish

New books, the same old thing

The dragons have not gone away

To fantasy they cling

And in my sleeping, late at night

Of dragons, now I dream

These beasts with wings and breath of flame

Of nostrils blowing steam

Dragons, they won’t let me be

Sleeping, or awake,

I wish that we could all decide

From dragons, take a break