Short Purportedly Poems

Artists throughout the ages
purportedly with strange, and often tragic, lives–
lore’s pages.	 

Some from past files– 
Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Beuys–
quaint styles. 

We laud
them now in archives– 
Odd

Artists throughout the ages–
Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Beuys–
Odd...

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Tho' not with a dagger in the library
nor candlestick in the conservatory
someone done the dirty deed
and yet of bodies none were found
perhaps the evidence had been concealed
interred deep down underground
so no one's doing time
it was eventually revealed
for the heinous crime
of thuggery and skullduggery
terrible as it may be
where the skeletons are buried
only the gravedigger knows
and after all allegedly it was purportedly
merely a murder of crows
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I wonder what has happened to our Malvolio.
It looks like this man has gone completely loco.
He's dancing around in double-gartered stockings colored yellow.
This is in contrast to the character we all know.
Malvolio read a love letter purportedly written by me.
Everything said there is total mendacity.
Apparently, he will not cease with his pretenses.
Lock him up in the cellar until he comes to his senses.

Based on the play "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare
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