BRIDGET
Fire burn and toil
Kettle bubble, water boil
Assam, Ceylon
Bitter, trouble, very strong
Black leaves and steep
Settle, cozy, dark as sleep
O soothe this day
Milk and sugar, cuppa tay
LIZZIE
Shattercane and velvet grass
Sorghum and white clover
Millipedes and burnet moths
Flax when winter's over
Cherry stones and apricots
Pale and milky silent
Poison forage, Prussian blue
Beautiful and violent
Ferric ferrocyanide
Three hand parts per million
Prussic acid, bluish-clear
Protoplasmic poison
Boils at twenty-six degrees
And faintly tasts of almonds
Death is by paralysis
Of heart and respiration
Passes through unbroken skin
Careful! For it's found within
Following directions in the
Book of Household Poisons
Just a drop dropped in the milk
And hope that she'll enjoy some
Mind you don't forget to close your
Eyes and hold your breath
But wouldn't it be easy now
A perfect little death?
Just drop a grain into her tea
Mrs. Borden R.I.P.

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