MARY, MARY.

How does your garden grow?
With  Jack in the Pulpit, Irises, and  Bleeding Heart,
for a start mingled with  frilly  long fingered fern,
the ever lovely and oh so delicate Lucerne.

Against a backdrop of tall Milk weed, thrives a cluster of Rosary Pea.
From which you harvest its potent seed,
for your very special need;
very special need...indeed!
Masked in the fragrance of Lily of the Valley, Skunk Cabbage,
Poinsettia and the Christmas Rose, grows with deceptive beauty.

Drawing the eye from Laburnum, Wisteria, Night shade,
and Mandrake,
from which is made the tea you make.
Each plant lovingly nurtured by your hand,
most with the ability to poison any man.
Who will succumb  to the deadly bounty of your green thumb?

Sans Silver Bells and Cockle Shell,
Mary , you scare the hell out of me!!


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