frog song

There’s an eye in the mouth of a frog

Who turned human and rooted through the gardens of gods

Digging up daisies and singing a song

For him it was lucid, so he croaked on,

“Seven thousand ships will dock,

seven thousand dames get off,

with ruffles on their dresses,

each one a beauty contestant,

I take them all, arm in arm

and skip with them to city hall.

The townsmen say,

‘damn that handsome human frog’ “

After digging for several hours

The frog had gathered all the flowers

Then swallowed the eye held in his mouth

First he chewed it up

Then he choked it down

The gods came ‘round to see him frolic away

Singing his song about the traveling dames