
When Imagination Became Old-Fashioned
We all played dollhouse in our big house, and we all doused in the pool-house.
We played farmhouse at the schoolhouse, and like jumping mouse in the fieldhouse.
But the schoolhouse turned a slaughterhouse, and the jumping mouse turned to biting louse.
She was a deer mouse, a little blonde mouse, in a big house, that they all doused.
She was a lighthouse in a jailhouse, alone playing dollhouse in her pink blouse.
But she rehoused in the new rouse, built a small house in the big house.
No more dollhouse but a greenhouse, not a playhouse, but a safehouse.
She’s not a small mouse, it’s just a big house where they all douse,
But, luckily, she had played in that pool-house.