pennyroyal and blue cohosh

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Charlatan woman,
With your uncouth phallus tongue,
Wanting honesty...
Go cry your crocodile tears--
They will never deceive me.

An innocent is cast away by its reluctant host and vindictive gossip spreads as the mephitic stench of a corpse.
I hate gossip. I'd much prefer to just sweep something (something... oh God it makes me weep) under the carpet then talk about it. Talking about it isn't gonna work it out or undo it or resign our hearts to its being real and irreversible.
It's just picking at a scab.