The Celebrity

"C'est la force et la droit qui règlent toutes choses dans le

monde; la force en attendant le droit."  (Force and right are

the governors of this world; force till right is ready.)  Joubert

 

This handsome celebrity of dark face and hair

Climbed the social ladder of Herculean heights,

Beguiling the gentry with sureness and devil-may-care.

 

With courage and prowess displayed in sportsman warfare,

He wooed the crowds, a modern-day knight,

This handsome celebrity of dark face and hair.

 

To the world outside he showed a savoir-faire

While darkness hid his psychopathic delights,

Beguiling the gentry with sureness and devil-may-care.

 

But his battered wife had never a prayer

Before he slashed her throat with his gleaming knife,

This handsome celebrity of dark face and hair.

 

The best attorneys assured this millionaire

The case was airtight; the facts we'll dynamite,

Beguiling the gentry with sureness and devil-may-care.

 

A free man now, he lives his sordid nightmare,

With roots he once turned away, he now reunites,

This handsome celebrity of dark face and hair,

Beguiling the gentry with sureness and devil-may-care.

 

 

B. Benjamin

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