here is little Effie's head
   whose brains are made of gingerbread
   when judgment day comes
   God will find six crumbs
   
   stooping by the coffinlid
   waiting for something to rise
   as the other somethings did-
   you imagine his surprise
   
   bellowing through the general noise
   Where is Effie who was dead?
   -to God in a tiny voice,
   i am may the first crumb said
   
   whereupon its fellow five
   crumbs chuckled as if they were alive
   and number two took up the song
   might i'm called and did no wrong
   
   cried the third crumb, i am should
   and this is my little sister could
   with our big brother who is would
   don't punish us for we were good;
   
   and the last crumb with some shame
   whispered unto God, my name
   is must and with the others i've
   been Effie who isn't alive
   
   just imagine it I say
   God amid a monstrous din
   watch your step and follow me
   stooping by Effie's little, in
   
   (want a match or can you see?)
   which the six subjective crumbs
   twitch like mutilated thumbs;
   picture His peering biggest whey
   
   coloured face on which a frown
   puzzles, but I know the way-
   (nervously Whose eyes approve
   the blessed while His ears are crammed
   
   with the strenuous music of
   the innumerable capering damned)
   -staring wildly up and down
   the here we are now judgment day
   
   cross the threshold have no dread
   lift the sheet back in this way
   here is little Effie's head
   whose brains are made of gingerbread







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