Well Water

The Lost World (1965)

What a girl called “the dailiness of life”(Adding an errand to your errand. Saying,“Since you’re up …” Making you a means toA means to a means to) is well waterPumped from an old well at the bottom of the world.The pump you pump the water from is rustyAnd hard to move and absurd, a squirrel-wheelA sick squirrel turns slowly, through the sunnyInexorable hours. And yet sometimesThe wheel turns of its own weight, the rustyPump pumps over your sweating face the clearWater, cold, so cold! you cup your handsAnd gulp from them the dailiness of life.

The Lost World (1965)