A List Of Things We Buried In The Garden

 

- A photograph of better times.

 

- An empty bottle of scotch.

 

- A well thumbed copy of ‘True Crimes’.

 

- A useless, broken watch.

 

- Seven bottles of little white pills.

 

- A pair of latex gloves.

 

- A folder with a thousand bills.

 

- A bunch of dead foxgloves.

 

- The broken vase they occupied.

 

- The sandwich that she ate

just minutes before she died.

 

- The crumb scattered plate.

 

- A hundred letters we’d exchanged

where she kept saying ‘no’.

 

- The desperate pleas, maybe deranged,

that had another go

to get the money that we needed

to get out of the mess -

all of them going unheeded.

 

- Her blood spattered dress.

 

- The cloth we used to wipe the place upon the window sill

where she hit her head.

Some might say all this was overkill

to make sure she was dead.

 

- A knife with red encrusted blade.

 

-The final statements from her banks.

 

- A bottle of bleach (industrial grade).

 

- a hastily scribbled note of thanks.

 

- A video tape of the whole session

clearly showing me and my brother

reading out this true confession.

 

- Mother.