editing done, and isn't it:
jack sprat could eat no fat
his wife could eat no lean
and so, betwixt them both,
they licked the platter clean!

but don't trust me, as a child i was taught,
Peter, Peter pumkin eater,
had a wife and couldn't keep her
had another, and couldn't love 'er
so up the chimney he did shove 'er!
Divorce-- nursery rhyme style!

and my version of old mother hubard-- very adult!
even I'm a little tea pot.. has an unbowlerize version.


my other obsession