Lois Letchford Reads "A Dragon is in My Computer" |Remastered

10 May 2022 · 2 min

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In this YouTube video, Lois Letchford narrates the children's poem "A Dragon Is in My Computer" from Jack Palutski's book Dragons Are Singing Tonight. The poem personifies a mischievous, green‑eyed dragon that lives inside the speaker's computer, appearing whenever the screen is turned on, disrupting homework and games, and resisting all attempts to remove it. The narrator describes the dragon’s fierce stare, hissing fire, flicking tail, and its relentless return after brief disappearances. The poem blends whimsical imagery with a subtle metaphor for persistent computer problems, ending with a hopeful wish that the dragon never escapes the machine.

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Hello, I'm Lois Letchford with the poem A Dragon Is in My Computer from Jack Palutski's book Dragons Are Singing Tonight. I'm sure we'd all love a dragon in our computer. A dragon is in my computer. It's there when I turn on the screen. It stares at me fierce and unfriendly through eyes of malevolent Green. It hisses and spits little fires. It flicks its preposterous tail. I've tried every trick to erase it, but all my stratagems fail. It's there when I'm doing my homework. It's there when I'm playing a game. My mouse does its best to erase it. That dragon remains all the same. It may disappear for a minute, But always comes slithering back, appearing atop of my program, resuming its nasty attack. I have no idea where it came from or why it keeps picking on me, examining me like a morsel it's thinking it might frax-a-see. I wish I could douse it with water and bop it a bit on the snout. A dragon is in my computer. I hope that it never gets out.