Sonnet for 1963

Jack is famous for Ruby rage;

Shooting a man off his 6th floor stage,

An impulse met with an impulse,

A pulse for a pulse,

An ego met with an ego,

Jack was famous for a strip club logo,

dirty dealing, white lie wheeling,

underlord of Dallas so start kneeling,

moments before he gave Oswald the bullet,

and he heard his inner demon yell pull it,

I wonder if he saw his name in lights,

Imagined himself as one of Camelot’s knights,

Ruby red blood on his proud ring covered hands,

Americans covered in more blood than they can withstand.

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