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Street Walking Killer Part 5

By day she was dressed With the finest of wear A conservative sort With pushed up red hair So hard to believe The dual role she had played When to Law School she went And appeared that she stayed It seems that Sara Jenkins Was a lawyer in the courts Now a professor of law With the main subject, Torts Her father was a judge Who, through scandal, had quit He cheated on his wife Who then died in a fit That man was the reason For her mother’s suicide He had never blinked an eye When the mother had died The daughter, now older, Loved her mother so much She had vowed against men And their lecherous touch She had promised, in honor, That she’d make them all pay From the butcher to the banker And her father, who got away

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008




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