In Eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
Old Mary Allen, came to tea.
Which in itself was not surprising.
T’was how she left, which was most alarming.
For though she departed, much like she came.
Like a ray of light through heavy rain.
She left a shadow, dark and unpleasant.
There in number 55 Crescent.
Yet those who know Miss Allen well.
Would not believe within could dwell.
The evil doings or witchy ways.
That came upon that house that day.
For as she scoffed the cakes and tea.
And pondered on life’s intricacies.
That her hosts did laugh and query too.
They did consume her witch’s brew.
For into their tea her hand did place.
A nasty poison devoid of taste.
Which would eventually corrode their innards.
That seeped with blood and out their gizzards.
And snatched their lives so painful and quick.
And stubbed them out like a candle wick.
So, while their bodies lay about the room.
And so befell a horrid gloom.
Miss Mary Allen laughed and smiled.
And danced about, all crazed and wild.
Until she came to depart the house.
Which she fled, quiet as a mouse.
And disappeared off into the city.
With smiles and roses, all innocently pretty.
Now please don’t think too badly of Mary.
Of her murderous ways that seem so scary.
As she is really the victim here.
And if I must, make it crystal clear.
For she had visited the family who,
for months and years had nastily knew.
That she was slowly being poisoned.
By the leaking valves at her employment.
The torrid factory where she and others.
Worked long and hard for the Wilson Brothers.
Who had invited her suddenly to tea.
All for show and sympathy.
But she had come across their deep deception.
And plotted revenge at that lunch reception.
So please feel happy, for the circumstance.
Of the middle class and happenstance.
And don’t judge Mary and her brazen gall.
An eye for an eye, after all.
From the newly revised version of ‘Graffitied Heart‘
Havoc and Consequence 