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                                I was Hangin' with Miss Marple Last Week

         “I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about ******
                     during tea.  Such an unpleasant subject.”

                                 -4:50 from Paddington

I visited Miss Marple this past week
In her little home in St. Mary Mead
Fluffy in her appearance and pink of cheek
Troweling with vehemence another garden ****

Kindness itself, she asked me to sit down
On a wooden bench near the hollyhock
A warm soft evening with the bees around
And the hourly chime from the old church clock

Tea and scandal at four, soft-scented soap –

     And in Pentonville, forlorn of any hope

A murderer awaiting the hangman’s rope