Poem 548
Death in all its forms …
… title is a play on Lives Of The Great Poisoners – a book mentioned in Under Milk Wood …
Poisons Of The Great Livers
Some poisons are rapid the ballistic speed of disease some poisons are easy like getting up in the morning and drowning in the shower blue poisons cars droughts allergies to bees poisons that are a long time coming endlessly ploughing across a plain of numbers others that leap from behind doors howling SUR- not enough fibre in your diet too much polish on the floor respectable poisons made more than faintly ridiculous when taken on the toilet some poisons are whistled in some brought like a dead child to the door some poisons are odourless others smell of smoke some as simple as stone or temperamental inclined to jam poisons hard enough to sharpen others as soft as a fistful of marshmallows expanding in the throat