This is truly a poem of a brokenhearted person that has come to realize the ending of the relationship is a better feeling. I love how the poet speaks as if the man in the poem is dead when he really isn't; she portrays him as being dead because she is trying to wipe him out of her life mentally. Thinking about all the wrong that he has done to her and realizing that she wouldn't have to suffer in that way anymore make her feel much more relieved and happy to have him out of her life. I love the way she explains the plants that she will grow on his grave, they are all poisonous plants which leads me to think that she is saying "yea we are not together anymore but i am going to make your life hell"...funny poem over all.
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Yes, there is black humor, esp. in lines like "you are a bad plumber"; but poignancy,too. You might discuss how the poem's imagery and rhythms--the way she works the lines--work to empower the speaker, and disempower the addressee (you write with an inkless pen)' poetry becomes a way of dealing, here... both cathartic and healing...
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