Remote casualty-

you who were so fair skinned

    The prayers did you good-

  Your horns vanished

    claws became fingers

  But you had to have speech therapy

  for that lisp

  The therapist was an attractive female college student

  what kind of therapy was this?

  You ran away from home and joined the snake cult

in the darkest jungle of New Hampshire

 but you became bored with giant sleepy anacondas

  and started kindergarten

where you were studied by yet more attractive 

female college students

 It seemed to be becoming a theme 

you drew pictures of tanks and bomber jets

machine guns and flame throwers

  the college girls became interested 

you refused to speak

  and ate only pbj sandwiches 

 Until they kissed you