First Divorce

There was a bucket, there was a wall,

there was a woman and a man.

The woman carried the bucket

and the man was the wall.

There was no place else to go.

It was a long, long time

for there was much to carry

and there was much to wall.

There was a path ran straight

from the well to the hole in the wall.

There was a path ran crooked

from the well to the wood.

There was something in the wood

bigger than the bucket.

Woe to the man, woe to the wall.

Woe to the bucket at the edge

of the wood.