The girl Edythe née (no way) Ida

wished to change her name when a neighbor named

her own baby girl Edythe and then-Ida

raged from the roof of the chicken coop

call me Edythe, Edythe with a y

and threatened I’ll never come down --

so at a mere seven years,  Ida became Edythe

and later, when Abraham loved her,

simply E