Write a Clerihew about a famous person (real or fictional) appropriate to a thriller, mystery, horror, or dark fantasy poem. Dark humor is the goal.
*four lines total
*first line must be their name
*rhyme scheme of AABB
*one stanza
*any meter/syllable count
Ex:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Took a bath (in a saucer)
In consequence of certain hints
Dropped by the Black Prince.
~~~by Edmund Clerihew Bently
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Author Notes
*****I do not wish with this poem to glorify this convicted murderer in any way. She is a monster who deserved her life imprisonment.
FROM WIKIPEDIA: Susan Denise Atkins (May 7, 1948 - September 24, 2009) was an American convicted murderer who was a member of Charles Manson's "Family". Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. Known within the Manson family as Sadie, Sadie Glutz, Sadie Mae Glutz or Sexy Sadie, Atkins was convicted for her participation in eight of these killings, including the most notorious, the Tate murders in 1969. She was sentenced to death, which was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment when the California Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences issued prior to 1972. Atkins was incarcerated until her death in 2009. Manson's obsession with the Beatle's eponymous LP known as the "The White Album" may have led to him giving Atkins the name "Sexy Sadie," which is a song off the double album. After Atkins was arrested and put into Sybil Brand Prison for Women for an unrelated charge, she confided in another inmate that she and the Manson Family had committed the Tate-Labianca murders. The eerie part of the entire story is that the Beatle's song had already been released when Atkins made her confession. John Lennon sings the following lyrics in the song:
Sexy Sadie, what have you done?
You made a fool of everyone
You made a fool of everyone
Sexy Sadie, oh, what have you done?
Sexy Sadie, you broke the rules
You laid it down for all to see
You laid it down for all to see
Sexy Sadie, oh, you broke the rules
This similarity is just one of the more fascinating connections that the Manson murders had with the Beatles and the music they released on "The White Album."
