About a New England Colonial day
When a witch had been found
On a stick
In the River
Sort of floating there
And reportedly “spewing” prophecy
Oh, bother
One says
How is it now?
The question
That a witch
Does prophecy at all
When it had been
A rather nice tradition
For normal people
In full
Instead of the witche
“Just floating there
“Spewing as it was
What did it say?
Oh bother, it would be
Do you have to recall
Such specificities in full
Only if you do
“It rafted on by
“And what was a witch
“But some sort of premonition