stonepicnicking_okapi

Title: Pernickety Poisoner
Fandom: Original
Poetic form: Abecedarian
Rating: Gen
No. of lines: 28
Prompt: Persnickety
Summary: An abecedarian about how nothing in the persnickety's poisoner's cabinet is of any use! So vexing!

arsenic is missing, wonder where it’s got?
belladonna is fizzing in a way that it should not
cyanide has gone off
digitalis has a bad cough
eserine has fled with missionaries for an ordeal
fleur-de-lance venom has its scales in a-peel
gelsemium flower is in ribbons
hemlock appears to have been shredded by gibbons
insulin has been left out for days
jimsonweed is lost in a zombie haze
kokoi frog has croaked
lead is too rust-choked
monkshood is oozing from a vial overturned
nicotine is up in smoke, charred, scarred, and burned
opium is afflicted with nightmares unabated
phosphorus’s glow has simply evaporated
quinine is nothing but a buzz
ricin is covered in fig-sandwich fuzz
strychnine has over-spilled
thallium has over-billed
‘untraceable’ now just what that could be?
veronal has disappeared unconsciously
warfarin has bled out from a cut
xenon has gone nuclear and just won’t shut up
yew berries have all be brewed for tea
zinc has lost its dire propensity

thus wrecked, wracked, and cluttered, the persnickety poisoner’s cupboard
is most distressingly hampering to the business of choice (and deadly) tampering