My Snapdragon Frog

My Snapdragon Frog
Lives behind
The piano
And dines
With my guests on Pork Rinds
and Brie.
My Snapdragon Frog
has a gumdrop smile
like no other you've ever seen
and a china robe
of a royal blue.
He sleeps in my ashtray
And wakes at Midnoon
With his sharp swamp eye
Glued
To
The stereo
Much better
Than T.V.
He explains
And begins his
Mongolian ballet again.

-Shelly Grossman (who will one day be a great writer)

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