Drugstore Wrapper
They were bangers doin' Mollies,
Liked to watch the Sheilahs gag,
They treated lassies like collies
Then they'd zip them in a bag.
They queried Maurice about the scene,
And asked Jerome just where he'd been,
They said when your life is in the crapper,
You've got no use for a drugstore wrapper.
There was a Dick that called her Vic,
I said that's not her name;
He said, "You're a person of interest,"
And "She was just another Dame."
The doctor talked in Latin,
And then the priest did, too,
I think a tall man said her last name
Like it came from Popol Vu.
The Peelers kept me under a lamp in the dark,
Watching blood in my eye with a frustrated sigh.
She must have had a visit from a foreigner,
And they had a hunch that he was I.
For a while ten men were all my friends,
And told me victims were volunteers,
They said scanty clothes just asked for it
And smiled at me with clever sneers.
Gentlemen made me generous offers,
Suits with promises would make their claims
And leisure clothes would sell me plea deals
To get a list of names.
They asked me all about her,
I said I'd like to tell them more
But I didn't think she'd like it
And now we can't be really sure.
They said that she was really strong,
That she put up quite a fight;
They asked about the cuts and scars
That I'd given myself that night.
My family was most helpful,
They all would testify
To how I'd acted strange of late
And no-one knew just why.
Expert witnesses would theorize
On my expanding fantasy:
Seems I'd started with the small things,
But those clearly weren't enough for me.
Papers cited a similar case,
And I felt the weight of all who stared;
The multitude would work their angles,
But none of them ever really cared.
They mused about my silent stare
And why I mounted no better defense,
They used my wounds and endless lack
To create guilt from innocence.
Then Seamus with a bronze star, shouted gleefully,
"We found another floater! Let the fool go free!"
But now I'm tied to a kitchen chair,
And my neighbors want to know,
Why they grabbed a local dude and let the white guy go.
