A very small fire is easy to kill
You can put it right out with a lemonade spill
You can stamp it out faster than fiddlers can fiddle
Your puppy could drown it with one stream of piddle
You can starve it of air if you lay on a blankie
Or even extinguish it with a wet hankie
You can probably drown it with one squirt gun’s squirt
Or smother it simply by kicking on dirt
Yes, it’s easy to kill a small fire, it’s not hard—
And the accident that I just had in your yard
The one where I thought it would prob’ly be fine
To light matches near barrels of wood turpentine—
Caused a fire so small it was barely a glow…
Or at least it was small just a minute ago.
