Jack the Ripper (Will versus the Police)

...The girls - of course they'd take the girls!

But they did so under the nose

Of Tupenny Will, while the bobbies looked on...

Will laid one out, Will had, was his song.

With a length of lead pipe,

His arm mighty strong!

[NOTE: This poem finds its origins in my very real supposition that the latter-day tale of Jack the Ripper, a serial killer who allegedly prayed upon syphilitic women who worked and lived by the London Bridge, was indeed a cover story for a series of gruesome murders committed by middle class anatomy students - men who went on to become medical doctors, most likely never meeting justice for their outrageous crimes... Tupenny Will is as such an ego projection or surrogate for the writer. Will has met his match among a number of assailants who were mostly local law enforcement conspiring to cover up the depradations of the monied perpetrators, and in killing Will, a local crazy person with a club of his own, removed a threat to the status quo of the time. Yet the poem remembers him as a hero. He was likely close friends with a number of the young women who were killed.)