In an interview I did with Mary Gauthier she makes the point that he (Prine) makes the complicated writing seem simple---a very difficult thing to do. The simplest rhymes that create a picture that really says something about the human condition.

On a lighter note---The Bottomless Lake---always reminded me of a picnic trip that Al Bundy & family (Married With Children) would have gone on in their '76 Dodge.

Bill H