The Bulgung

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The Bulgung is an animal not very well known

For what it is, it is hard to dethrone

The fluff on its head, as light as down

Sometimes comes off, floating to the ground

You might say aww what a sweet little thing

Its head no larger than a vase from Ming

But what if I told you while it was out

Its legs did stay and crawl about

It did not use them for it can fly

Only when they were needed to pry

Its prey away from the flesh they did cling

For it seemed to ruin the entire thing

What is its prey? I hear you ask

Because it only comes out while wearing a mask

Well during the night they hunt and slaughter

Many of your own sons and daughters

They do not eat the body, no

But instead the soul, as far as we know

Do not say just figure it out

For everyone knows there is no doubt

Its teeth, all 321

Are sharper than any ray of sun

Once they pierce your soul, you're done

Destined to walk the earth unbelieving

Trapped in a world devoid of meaning

And when you think their world is teeming

With people in a haze without dreaming

Where does it live? you beg of me

Not in the sky nor out at sea

It lives somewhere familiar to both you and me

I will tell you in 1, 2, and 3

In the basement of a building

Where you might find a formal meeting

Go up the floors and you will find

An office of the elaborate kind

Not one that we could own

Instead sits there the child of Lucifer's throne

The sole commander of the Bulgung

Who often goes by a different name

But I'll leave it for others to figure out who

Because mistress Lucinda would like her stew

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