Le Morte de Pendragon; an Italian sonnet
It’s really quite a curious thing, you know,
How one so versed in killing methods strange -
A murderer by all accounts deranged -
Met such a pleasant end, as such things go.
Yet so indeed it went with this our foe
When, at the fatal hour prearranged
‘S next victim from her life thought to estrange,
A sharp arthritic cramp wreaked then its woe!
Our Pen, distracted from his keyboard thus,
Driven elsewhere to find the Tylenol,
Mistakenly retrieved the Valium.
Then, taking several (being quite a wuss),
'A forgot why he had ever killed at all.
And, newly kind, to death did he succumb..