“Remember I read that story

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