Litmus Test

Farewell his belladonna belle;
For she should know her power,
Bigger than a Kremlin past,
Which is a gremlin in his thoughts.

To her this message flows,
From a blood-red estuary,
To heaven with a houri
Or a beautiful infanta.

She left him emotionally retarded;
Now his hearing hears a hummingbird,
To remind him of the flowers he lacked.
Now he breathes as a nonentity.

Farewell his belladonna belle;
He is thy man of the world,
And he gives his diagnosis in colour;
A tear of alkali and acid,
On a sheet of litmus paper.