BASIL

She Tended the pot so carefully,

The Basil so fragrant and lush   

Admired by all who passed it by –

When they weren’t in a businesslike rush.

The argument the week before

When she found her man had been

Screwing around with another girl

Was really something to be seen.

She swiped him with her garden spade –

But was shocked when he dropped dead

Especially when she realised

She’d severed his cheating head!

It landed right next to her feet

After bouncing round the floor

She stuffed it quickly into a pot

 Prepared the night
before.

All ready for her basil plants –

Now it came in very useful  

And she rolled the body into a trench –

She was nothing if not resourceful.

 The pot was kept on a sunny ledge

And one day followed another

Until she knocked it over the edge –

And it killed her lover – called Basil.