Calamity

He slept in the bath when he was drunk Slept so long he went and shrunk Down down down to such a size He couldn’t be seen by human eyes His wife saw the bath and with a shrug Slipped in one arm and pulled the plug She didn’t do it with any intent But down the drain he silently went He’d never ever learned to swim So that was the last she saw of him Gone for ever that unhappy soul Swept out to sea down a plug hole After a while she married his friend So for her his story had a happy end There’s a moral to his end if you think Be careful when and where you drink Or you could meet such a bad end Down the plug and round the bend Through the sewers on a bumpy ride Then out to sea on the rising tide Maybe to provide a succulent dish For a shoal of hungry hunting fish Perhaps the the irony of such a lost life Served with peas and chips to your ex-wife.