Joyce Hemsley - Deadly Nightshade

Rictameter.

Nightshade
provides the world
with snuff and cigarettes.
Students know about tobacco
and the Churchill habit-forming cigar...
the leafy plant comes from afar
but now the matter rests
time for sleep it's
Nightshade

Joyce Hemsley

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