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A frugal pet owner named Matt,
Fed SPAM do his dog and his cat.
He turned up next day
With his head ripped away,
And inserted in where he once sat.
--- Bob Roberds

The asphalt was covered with rain,
In the spot where they'd murdered poor Jane;
The roadway was steep
And the water ran deep,
As it carried her blood down the drain.
--- Cap'n Bean

Fantastically gorgeous Sue Vector,
A peerless Production Director,
Worked her design magic
Until her end tragic
At the hands of a drug debt collector.
--- Loren C Fitzhugh P9712

A couple named Andy and Claire
Were murdered when caught unaware;
The deaths of the twosome
Were horribly gruesome
And ended their sorid affair.
--- Cap'n Bean P0205

There was an old person who knew
What decorum decreed he should do.
But did something quite other
And murdered his Mother,
As fancy directed him to.
--- Jim Weaver Collection

The gangster had feelings insidious;
His moll had to him been PERFIDIOUS.
One day he did spy
The girl with the guy.
He offed them in manner fastidious.
--- Elois

An adventurer went east -- and went west.
He was boxed with a cross on his chest.
He had packed all his arms,
And all his lucky charms;
All he missed was his bullet-proof vest.
--- Arthur Pattaffy

A freak at the circus named Brown,
While wearing the fat lady's gown,
Tried to force some strange sex
On the girl with two necks,
And was strangled to death by the clown.
--- Cap'n Bean P0108

There once was a woman named White,
Who died in a violent fright,
While shaking and thrashing,
And sobbing and gnashing,
And screaming with all of her might.
--- Cap'n Bean P0007

"Good luck," said the tutor of Hassin,
The on-the-job training assassin,
"You'll get your B.A.
As soon as you slay
The next he or she who is passin'."
--- Irving Superior P8407

Papa's darling, concealing her crime,
Hid his corpse in a barrel of brine.
To the jury she pled,
"The old drunkard's not dead.
He's just pickled now, ALL of the time."
--- Steve Wickersham

A woman who called herself Dar
Was killed in a manner bizarre;
She was forcibly snatched,
And her head was detached,
And was pickled inside of a jar.
--- Cap'n Bean P0109

They have a free press in Iran,
Where books are not subject to ban.
When they don't like a work,
They hunt up the jerk
Who wrote it and murder the man.
--- A N Wilkins P8903

"I do not," said the murderous Budd,
"Have a penchant for violence and blood.
I merely pushed Jane
In the path of the train,
In order to hear the ka-thud!"
--- Henry Fitzgerald

If you only kill one, you're a zero,
A murderer baser than Nero;
But if in a war,
You kill eighty score,
By God! You're a national hero.
--- Laurence Perrine P8903

The corpse in a pool of its gore
Was fond on the billiard room floor;
But how it got there
And who, why, and where,
Must wait until page 304.
--- Laurence Perrine P8903

'Neath these clods lies a Limerick fan
Who refused to write lines that would scan;
He was murdered, they say,
In a most gruesome way:
Thirteen footprints were found on his can.
--- Robin K Willoughby P9404

Little Willie laid Jill on the track,
Then the train came along and went SMACK!
Since I was the next
That Jill would have sexed,
You can see I was taken aback.
--- Anon

There was a young man named Alexis
Who did it with folks of both sexes.
But the wrong ass he pinched
And poor Alex was lynched,
'Cause they don't like that shit down in Texas.
--- Karen B

When he got a hot tip from a pro,
He arranged for some Mafia dough.
But he lost at the track --
Couldn't pay the juice back --
Now he lies with a tag on his toe.
--- Peter Wilkins P9806

There once was a woman named Smith
Who showed maternal instinct a myth.
She said she's attacked
And the kids were car-jacked,
But it was she who offed them forthwith.
--- Anon

A party girl, drunk off her rocker
Met guys who were eager to "dock" her.
Cops with airplanes and scuba
Scour the shores of Aruba,
But she's gone down to Davy Jones Locker.

(disappeared in Aruba mid 2005)
--- Bruce

A newly wed woman of Florence,
She wept for a reason that warrants
Depression and gloom,
For they murdered her groom;
Her tears were cascading in torrents.
--- Cap'n Bean P0010

In the heinous and cold-blooded slaughter
Of the Reverend's twelve-year old daughter,
They convicted Jerome,
Who claimed he was home,
But his alibi didn't hold water.
--- Cap'n Bean P0209

A young noisyphrenic, quite terse,
Used to shout, from his car, every curse.
One day he yelled "Fag"
At an armed cop in drag --
That noisyphrenic is now in a hearse!
--- Sam Shaffe P8708

In this century all can attest
That mankind did his murderous best.
Let there be not a doubt,
It's the age of the lout
When a killer is only a pest.
--- Warrick Elrod

The partitioning of Vladimir Scowles
Was sickening: they came on his bowels
In a firkin; his brain
Was found clogging a drain,
And his toes were inside of some towels.
--- Edward Gorey

A family known as the Pucketts
Was killed in the borough of Ruckets;
Their bodies were found
Hacked apart on the ground;
The pieces were gathered in buckets.
--- Cap'n Bean P0408

I know of a girl named Donner,
Whose sister often picked on her.
But she got the last laugh
With a piranah in the bath,
And her sister now is a goner.
--- P Copeman

A psycho professor named Derrish
Once authored a text that he cherished.
When the book was turned down,
He traveled downtown,
And oh, did his publisher perish!
--- Keith Gilman P0108

There was a young man from Dunbar,
Who playfully pickled his ma.
When he finished his work,
He remarked with a smirk,
"This will make quite a family jar."
--- Anon

An eerie young fellow named Mark
Had an attic with spaces quite dark,
Which is where he had placed
All the girls he had chased,
And then murdered at night in the park.
--- Cap'n Bean P0508

A young man who came from Manila,
Turned into a highly paid killer.
His victims, sad to say,
All finished in one way,
In foundations to act as a filler!
--- Arthur Pattaffy

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A young naval captain was steamin' --
Hot mad over a fight. Like a demon
He got all hell bent,
And off half-cocked he went
On the sub, as he shot all his seamen!
--- Anon

A kinky old farmer named Flannery
Stripped hides off farm lads in his granary.
They'd have died if they'd learned
How much money he earned,
By selling their pelts to a tannery.
--- Armand E Singer 943

the noise that you usually give
When strangled until you don't live
Is a sharp choking sound
As you fall to the ground;
A ch-ch-ch affricative.
--- Anon

There was a strange fellow named Ted,
Who bashed young girls over the head.
They fried sicko Bundy
The day after Monday,
And folks rejoiced that he was dead.
--- Alexander Baron

A young woman settled near Yuma,
Infested that place in a bloomer.
But persons of taste
Were not slow to make haste
To conduct her aside and entomb her.
--- Newton Mackintosh P8803

A famous old Hollywood actor
Said he'd be my true benefactor.
But, he'd only slouch
On his casting couch.
He's mashed up in my trash compactor.
--- Anon

A youngster named Roosevelt Wayne,
On his way to the school, in the rain;
With a rope made of jute,
He was killed by a brute,
Who was known to be highly insane.
--- Cap'n Bean P0401

A fellow whose name had been Max,
Was murdered one night with an axe,
By a crazy named Fred,
Who severed the head,
Using only a couple of whacks.
--- Cap'n Bean P0310

An incautious young woman named Venn
Was seen with the wrong sort of men.
She vanished one day,
But the following May
Her legs were retrieved from a fen.

(fen - low peaty watery land)
--- Edward Gorey

A curse to his parents was William;
With rancor and hatred he filled 'em.
"Who asked to be born?"
He'd sneer and with scorn,
"Who asked to be born?" so they killed him.
--- Irving Superior P8903

A vicious young psycho named Slater
Just did in his mater and pater,
And remarked with a grin,
Wiping drool from his chin,
"I'll come back for sis a mite later."
--- Armand E Singer 350

The family known as the Burns
Had the fate for which nobody yearns;
They were savagely killed
And their bodies were grilled,
Now their ashes are resting in urns.
--- Cap'n Bean P0302

I've sent my regrets to Nepal,
The Royal Clan's dead, nearly all.
The Prince's dear mother
Said, "Marry another!"
She's now Holy Cow in a stall.
--- Travis Brasell

They tried hard to kill rich Aunt May
And finally did it one day.
Now her nephews and nieces
Are richer than Croesus,
Proving where there's a will there's a way.

(in Ellery Queen magazine)
--- Betty Joahmans P9108a

In a world that's a bit of a dud,
People die, leaving graves in the mud.
But a minute to think:
Lies written in ink,
Can't hide facts written in blood.
--- Sandman

A faggot living at Ewell,
Found his bonfire needed more fuel,
So he threw in Uncle James
To heighten the flames,
A measure effective through cruel.
--- Langford Reed

Yes, life is a bit enigmatic,
And happiness not automatic,
But murder, of course,
With a smidgeon of force,
May be neatly performed in the attic.
--- Paul Hoffman

The beating of Solomon Reeding
Left him broken and dying and bleeding
On the hot, barren sand
In a desolate land,
Where the vultures awaited their feeding.
--- Cap'n Bean P0112

There once was a dour old curmudgeon,
Who manners fill his family dudgeon. (resentment)
Till one impatient young heir
Slithered up to his chair
And beat him to death with a bludgeon.
--- Anon

But maybe I'll cook her in oil,
And laugh as she tries to recoil.
In a bubbling vat
Of hot animal fat,
I'll watch the old harridan boil.

(mother-in-law flame)
--- PeterW

When the shortage of fuel made it hard
To maintain the big blaze in our yard;
We threw on Aunt Ho,
Who heightened the glow,
But I fear she became somewhat charred.
--- Langford Reed P0103

A psuedo-messiah, Koresh,
Vexed the Feds. Oh what a mess!
He said, "My law is higher",
And started a fire.
The result: A bunch of burned flesh.
--- Anon

There once was a dumb man named Lee;
He got in a street fight, you see.
He was hit by a bar,
And now has a scar
On his neck where his head used to be.
--- Anon

A Boy Scout, his parents detestin',
Killed both with two blows of his mess-tin;
And as they were rotting,
He practiced his knotting
On big sister's lower intestine.
--- Beelzebub

Mac's life was a practical joker,
He was tops for a retired broker.
He was good to the end,
When found by a friend,
Beaten to death with a heavy poker.
--- Arthur Pattaffy

He was found on the floor near the fender;
He looked like he'd been on a bender.
There was blood on his head;
He was obviously dead,
The man thought of as a never-ender!
--- Arthur Pattaffy

The police came with a ring on the bell;
"'Ullo, 'ullo, 'ullo, what the 'ell,
It's the joker, old Mac,
Who's laid flat on his back,
Look at 'im. Lying there like 'e fell!"
--- Arthur Pattaffy

The detectives soon came in their macs;
We want to know all of the facts.
We did not like your friend,
But we don't like his end.
It looks like he was killed by an axe.
--- Arthur Pattaffy

Just then they all received a surprise;
The corpse arose before their eyes.
With my own croaking,
I have finished with joking;
He fell! A heart attack was his demise!
--- Arthur Pattaffy

There once were some folks who were bitter
That they had a child and they hit her.
The child then died
And so they had lied,
And said it was beat by the sitter.
--- Anon

A cluster of kids was attacked
By a man who was savagely whacked;
Their bodies were bled,
Then he left them, for dead,
In a dumpster, all tidily stacked.
--- Cap'n Bean P0308

Betrayed by his partner at bridge,
And therefore in debt by a smidge,
He broke, with the phone,
Her occipital bone,
And then stashed her away in the fridge.
--- Beelzebub TP9804

A cold-hearted robber named Jed
Had murdered a tailor named Ted;
He cut off his breath
And he choked him to death,
With a yard of his costliest thread.
--- Cap'n Bean P0111

Athena was struck on the head,
And was left, in repose, on her bed,
Where she died, in the night,
On a soft sheet of white,
That was stained from the places she'd bled.
--- Cap'n Bean P0411


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