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The Black Widow's Metastasizing Guise: Casey Anthony Saga

You spun your spindly web of lies
In the silken strands waxed family ties
You coddled your young then muffled her cries
You buried her carcass 'neath the availing skies
Beneath your black veil lay a predatory disguise
With your guile, you craftily disarmed all of the bleary eyes
A bleeding shroud in your stolid carriage did rise
A new, more sinister plan you did devise
You desecrated the shroud and drained the feeding flies
Intrigue turned to folly as your friends, family reconnoitered with 
spies
In your cleansed web lay a portentous prize
From the fowl smell of putrid flesh, a merciless kill they did 
surmise
You quickly returned to your spinning mill a more flexible yarn to 
reprise
You calmly intimidated that the innocent prey accidentally entered 
your vize
With mercy and pardon you greeted its pitiful sighs
After you released your caring grip, it fell through narrow gap, due 
to smaller size
Landing in a squalid pool of water, with its plight did sympathize
Drowning in your own cup of drained blood, could not immediately 
empathize
When the hoary sun dried its bowl of tears, your twined fates did 
realize
Hearts painfully severed, buried the corpse death's sting to 
tranquilize
Burying your grief in the earth, your emotive grounds did 
subsequently anesthetize        
Oh stealthy predator time did your lethal venom into salt crystalize
Your slithery prints the corroded carcass doth no longer advertize
But from heaven's door a saintly angel yet lives your evil deed to 
immortalize

Copyright © Stephen Parker




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