first: I tried to kill it with a hammer

thought that I could lose

the head

sure! we've eaten off the silver

(when even food was against us)

and then I tried to kill it in the bed

second: I gagged it with a pillow

but awoke the nuns inside

my head

they pounded their goddy-goddy fists

(from the inside - so from the outside)

I got good: I stuck it. dead

thirdly: I put my lips upon it

and blew a frost across

its flat

I wrote upon its outside-surface