pork chop

..the healer weighed this carefully and decided it was fate. Could not, however, push aside the portents weighing on its pate. "Wise child," the healer said, "I will assist you in this way. And if you meet your destination that will suffice as pay. "The relief you seek, you see, lies at the lip of a watering hole. And the eastern path from the reedy bath leads to a softly sloping knoll. Upon this grows a balding patch of the rarest black henbane. The juice from its leaves, my life-worn child, is all you need to obtain. "And under any circumstance, do NOT partake of its flowers. And though it may emit some stench, do not complain or glower. Just steam a sprig of blue curls in, and the mint will overpower. "Then sip this elixir slowly once upon the every hour. Until your eyelids start to dip and the tip of your tongue turns sour. "Beneath the shady hemlock there's a hassock where you'll rest. And while you sleep, a day or three, your soul will convalesce. So go now girl but as you leave, I have but one request..