The Purple Cabbage
Posted: 30 Nov 2012, 06:16
She put the purple cabbage in the salad bowl
and tossed it along with poison salts in the salad spinner;
Now you know she had no need to use the scissors,
or the shears, or even heat the skewers to finish off.
Twenty minutes before her husband started for home
she would add poison powder in the salt shaker,
sprinkle the veggie with spice in the saucepan,
stuff it into the stock pot, transfer the whole
into a slow cooker and wait. She had thought it all out,
no sharpening the steak knife with steel
she would not need to use the strainer or the sieve.
Her husband took the same route from the factory
they would ring her up when the chauffeur started the car.
In all her married life she had planned this moment
now the triumph would be hers and she would be heiress
to his fortune.A telephone call shattered her,'madam
there was a car accident, a hit and run, your husband died
on the spot.
She dumped her concoction into the toilet sink
and made herself a coconut soufflé.
and tossed it along with poison salts in the salad spinner;
Now you know she had no need to use the scissors,
or the shears, or even heat the skewers to finish off.
Twenty minutes before her husband started for home
she would add poison powder in the salt shaker,
sprinkle the veggie with spice in the saucepan,
stuff it into the stock pot, transfer the whole
into a slow cooker and wait. She had thought it all out,
no sharpening the steak knife with steel
she would not need to use the strainer or the sieve.
Her husband took the same route from the factory
they would ring her up when the chauffeur started the car.
In all her married life she had planned this moment
now the triumph would be hers and she would be heiress
to his fortune.A telephone call shattered her,'madam
there was a car accident, a hit and run, your husband died
on the spot.
She dumped her concoction into the toilet sink
and made herself a coconut soufflé.