poor cousin Jan
My poor cousin Jan.
the doctors are picking on her again.
I had heard about her cousin for years.
Why doesn’t she quit nursing for those doctors?
It does not sound like they appreciate her.
Jan Toppan, the nurse, killed fifty people
with morphine or atropine over a twenty year period.
Someone is whispering. What?
Okay. Some say she killed a hundred.
She argued at her trial these were
“acts of mercy”.
The jury did not see it that way.
They committed poor cousin Jan to an asylum.
Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2024
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