Before I buried him, else I couldn’t have managed.

They excavated more. “Go keep his wife

Out of the barn.”

Some one looked in a window;

And curse me, if he wasn’t in the kitchen,

Slumped way down in a chair, with both his feet

Stuck in the oven, the hottest day that summer.

He looked so mad in back, and so disgusted

There was no one that dared to stir him up

Or let him know that he was being looked at.