Hannibal L
Hannibal L.
It was during a time I was visiting,
in a cell that felt like hell,
a doctor and killer most riveting.
I shall call him Hannibal L.
This psychiatrist - he had feelings for me,
and he treated me very well!
I was whip smart and HE was whip smart.
In this cell that felt like hell,
I’d question him this. He’d riddle me that -
I and this Hannibal L.
Then I grew in respect from the things that to me
Hannibal L. would tell.
So this is the reason that when he escaped
from his cell that felt like hell,
no fear did I have of the chilling
fled cannibal Hannibal L.
So when he fled, his clues about
a killer that he knew well
would help me shut up a murderer
in a cell that felt like hell.
This devil I tracked, known as “Buffalo Bill”
was eluding me so well.
But Hannibal (as you already know
from the cell that felt like hell)
had given me clues that helped me to catch
this killer chilling as Hannibal L.
Doctor L., how he knew me! Our bond was no ruse,
for he’d gotten to know me well.
Yes, that killer knew me so well,
for "Death's-head Moth" killer I caught from his clues
(demon “Bill” who's now locked in a cell).
And cured I am too of trauma because
of cannibal Hannibal L.
For I no longer dream of poor lambs as they scream
thanks to cannibal Hannibal L.
And his eyes saw my soul, so I now feel I’m whole
thanks to cannibal Hannibal L.
In the sequel, part 2, played by somebody new,
I’m Clarice, and that cannibal I will pursue
on a pathway that leads to a hell -
like a "tale from Poe" kind of hell.
Dec. 27, 2020
for L MILTON HANKINS' "Parody of a Famous Poem" Contest
No apologies to Poe because I think he would have really enjoyed the
novel on which "Silence of the Lambs" was based, but sorry for any meter
that was "off." If not for my trying to match the meter of this poem to Poe's in "Annabel Lee," I would have called this poem Hannibal Lecter instead of Hannibal L!
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