Witch & Skeleton [Free Verse / Senryū]

Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre; Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1844)
PREMISE:
Princess Takiyasha
 summoned a skeleton to
  kill a samurai.

MORAL?:
"Don't bring swords
 to a giant skeleton-ghost 
  fight!"

CONCLUSION:
Yet, in settled dust,
 the world was less one
  Princess-witch.

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