A collection of poetry exploring the crimes committed by Belle Gunness, Ed Gein, and Jack the Ripper.

The Brutal Ballad of Belle

A humble, Nordic maiden
Belle crossed those frozen seas
Strapping and conniving
Afloat on avaricious dreams

“Till death do you part”
With a brutal consummate
As each one like the last
Betrothed only to his fate

A mercenary so beguiling
She wooed them to their graves,
A mystery born one fiery night
Children slumbering in flames

Of all women ever so evil
Ms. Gunness claims the throne
But the end of this black widow’s tale
For eternity unknown

The Tailor

This grim and macabre craftwork

My time it does abide

As they become surrogate

To unfulfilled matricide

Adorn her name in reverence

Adorn my flesh in skin

Lycanthropic in the moonlight

Adrift, dimwitted sin

A Letter to London

A labyrinth I carve into this city’s mind
Cuts deep as their questions with each fabled find

The lamp light’s glow, the gleam of my blade
All that illuminate these Victorian days

Archetypal butcher, a friend to none but fog
Archaic lunar slasher, of a terror-frozen flock

Streets soaked in the rain from my Hellish storm
Lacerations and terror till the first breaths of morn

Within their wounds a tale I wove
Fear enveiled tumultuous droves

Desperate and frenzied for truth to be shone
To reveal the face of this Leather Apron

Whitechapel’s name to forever be bound
With these fetid cobbles of my hunting ground

And though only few knew the cold of my knife
Riddles and wrath gained me eternal life

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