A is for Arsenic someone thought fun    To include in the icing on top of a bun.   B is for bats that swoop out of the air    And squeaking inaudibly catch in one’s hair.   C is for cord of a moderate length,    To hang oneself from it requires no great strength.   D,E,F,G,H,I.   K is for Kris with a blade that is wavy,    One wonders why somebody smeared it with gravy.   L’s for a letter that lay in a trunk,    Its contents explain how the dinghy was sunk.   M is for madhouse where is confined    A lady whose friends say she’s out of her mind.   NOP.   Q is for quilt wrapped around a dead torso,    A sick-making sight could hardly be more so.   R is for Ray’s wicked invention,    Dissolves at a distance the parts you don’t mention.   S is for suicide so it would seem,    But then who was it uttered that unfinished scream.   T,U,V,W, X.    Y is for yonder where something is lying,    Which proves, seen close, to be somebody dying.   Z is for zero, the hour of doom,    It will strike any minute but no-one knows whom.