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The Problem of Were

Where the giant fish

Dress like men and women outdoors

But shuck their clothes

In their homes

We had to write new laws

Even though they don't have

External genitals,

But those iridescent scales!

If you know what to look for

You can tell from the scales

What they look like

In the wereman or werewoman form

So it's almost like

In the fish form

They are naked humans

At least that's what the state legislature

In its infinite wisdom

Has decreed.

It is a fine legal point:

If you kill them in person form

They revert to fish

Then you may decide to eat them.

Have you committed murder?

Are you a cannibal?

The legislature is still out on that one.