They say you scream when you’re picked
and your scream could kill.
And I know that your toxins
could silence a witch forever.

Ordinary leaves,
ordinary stem,
root that looks like a man.

I picked you and you didn’t scream
and I wasn’t condemned to Hell
and I was disappointed.

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