witch song

head (body language series)  watercolour  14"x11"

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the lang witch had two friends:
the sand witch, the ditch witch.
the lang witch: a gullible prophet.
the sand witch: a beguiling joker.
the ditch witch: a guiltless neurotic.
when together they always end
their gathering by reciting the following incantation:

one, two, three
here come trouble;
more powerful than 
the telescope hubble.
skin of a snake,
boil and bake;
peepers the swamp, 
luna moth the bog,
sheep wool, tongue of a frog,
spoon, knife, fork, an old blind king,
grasshopper leg, a hornet sting,
for a spell to break the future past,
blow the wind, erect the mast
stir the pot,
lick the spoon
climb on top
touch the moon 

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