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The Lizzie Andrew Borden Virtual Museum and Library is proud to present the original works by these poets. Those interested in submitting their work for inclusion on this page are invited to send it via e-mail.
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Miss Lizzie Borden (so they say) |
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| A hatchet on one side. An ax on the other. The legend of Lizzie killing father and step mother. So brilliant, so angry, did she make the plan? To kill step mommy, and later kill again? Or maybe she didn't plan it that way at all... And another murderer, waited in the hall. And father who came home early that day. |
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Ladies and gentlemen |
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You all know the poem:
The contest was to rewrite this ditty, using the same meter and cadence. The subject matter should relate somehow to the case, but is not limited to the actual crime itself. |
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| One grim hot August day, In a house locked within and without, A blade rained blood, crushing bone and brain. Striking 19 times, the stepmother was dead by a bed. Father's eye was cut in half, Where he had laid a tired head. |