Danny Skinkman

Danny Skinkman walked the land

Trying not to think

About hard it was to be

Half man, half Hosmer’s Skink

Rejected by the human world

Rebuffed by Skinkdom too

He was alone and friendless till

He found out about glue

If you have never seen a skink

A-huffing from some Clag

If watching rare half-man half-lizards

Sniff glue is not your bag

Then you must have no real idea

You’d have no earthly clue

Of how a skinkman’s life can change

When he gets on the glue

His claws grew long and shiny as

His scales regained their sheen

His eyes were bright, his tail was long

The longest I have seen

He got a job in banking and

A girlfriend from Peru

“I owe it all,” he told his friends

“To sniffing lots of glue”

But just when it seems nothing could

Upset a happy life

So often that is when the fates

Step in to give us strife

For Danny Skinkman thought he had