Thursday’s Piece

I know some poison I could drink.
I’ve often thought I’d taste it.
But Mother bought it for the sink,
And drinking it would waste it.

(Edna St. Vincent Millay – “I know a hundred ways to die”)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
4 December 1971

 

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