“A blog is like a dragon. You have to feed it all the time and sometimes you get burned”
unattributed quote, collected here by Scicurious. (if you know who, let me know.)
If you want to own a dragon, there’s some things you ought to know
Though they’re cute when really tiny, if you feed them, they will grow—
And it’s fun to feed a dragon—well, it’s really fun at first,
Till you’re bleeding from the bite-marks and the blisters that have burst!
Finding food, at first, is simple, cos it’s laying all around,
And a dragon, when it’s little, eats whatever you have found.
As the months and years continue, dragon-feeding can get tricky,
As it’s eaten all the easy finds and now is getting picky
But you’ve got to feed the dragon, though it’s taking all your time
(And it really doesn’t help, should you decide to feed it rhyme)
All the dragon owners tell you, cos it’s something that they’ve learned,
That no matter how you feed it, there are times that you’ll get burned.
If you see I’ve written something, and you really wonder why…
Well, I have to feed the dragon, or it’s gonna up and die.
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As you might ascertain, I woke up this morning with writer’s block. This one is from the old digs.
Love it. :) My dragon is in hibernation, I’m trying to stay offline and succeeding fairly well – and yet I miss you. We’ll have to get into poetry-battle again when I return from overseas, I remember that G&S one! :D
I have a dragon in my garage
A lovely little pet
I keep it for the theist barrage
Of arguments, to whet:
They say a dragon cannot be
But look, it is, right there!
It’s invisible to you and me,
It looks the same as air
But shouldn’t dragons exhale fire?
I have to think a beat
Ah yes, I know, relax your ire
My dragon has no heat!
But surely something big as this
Must knock stuff all about
Except for this, its mass is nix
It hap’ly hops about!
A dragon’s roar can rent asunder
Objects as tough as stones
But my pet can only thunder
Nonexistent tones.
The theist claims have fizzled out
I’ve tossed away them all again
I’ll wait ’till next they come about
With my dragon, Carl Sagan.
I was reminded of the plant in Little Shop of Horrors:
FEED MEEEE!!!!