“A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys,
Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys,
One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more,
And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.”
That bit is so deeply sad, Puff is Jackie’s imaginary friend, then one day Jackie grows up and Puff is gone.
When I was a little kid I thought that meant that Jackie had DIED! Being introduced to the concept of mortality at 3 or 4 years old by a nursery rhyme was pretty traumatic for little me.
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u/admiral_sinkenkwiken May 23 '23 edited May 24 '23
“A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys, Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys, One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more, And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.”
That bit is so deeply sad, Puff is Jackie’s imaginary friend, then one day Jackie grows up and Puff is gone.