"Jolly Jane" (National Poetry Month Poem-A-Day) Day 4

written by Bruce A. Pandolfo
4/4/17


Taunton Lunatic Asylum for psychotic patients,
Toppan, “Jolly” Jane, do not mistake her awful plain
commonplace innocuous, aged image for soft and safe,
She's got insane deadly habits, devil's advocate, God she played
arrived here after she offed the Davis' at their Cape Cod estate
She's admittedly authored the death of more than thirty by inoculation
Boston training at Cambridge aimed at a nursing education,
her opiate experimentation lead to disqualification
she left the eve of her graduation never received certification
I'll review my scattered statements to ascertain what the case is
...
The horror born Honora Kelley to an alcoholic father
“Kelley The Crack” pot, wack-job, I had jotted “may be the fodder”,
A tailor, the tale goes tried to sew his eyelids closed, lost it,
lost mother to the illness she's fraught with though she fought it
with no support the kids went to an orphanage, impoverished
Honora and her sister found the top end Toppans, and were fostered
The Toppans renamed her “Jane” to emulate a favorite Aunt and
she started embracing darkness regardless of shed hardships

As her alias implies, Jane was jovial,
Alas, the lass applied a mask of joking tones,
Absorbing observing the roller-coaster of the overdose
She'd even hold them close as she drove them to the holy ghost
kiss them and dismiss them,
finished as they finished,
sexuality rare in women
but admitted it when admitted,
she came during their exits,
came highly recommended,
surprisingly impressive credits
read a testimonial that said
“Jane sat by to the bitter end”
but some Missus Hyde sits inside
edits questionable ethics
with a syringe for scythe
that elicited/incited vile deadly injections
if asked, Jane claims she was being empathetic,
evidence of her psychopathy, the convenient mercy subjective
...
“Poor them!” Jane felt she aided her prey she confessed
Warped head, unstable, disabled, got cradled in bed,
force fed the fey to fade all their pain dulled to rest
Sure end, fatally playfully taken their breath.
Court sketch gave her the label,“The Angel Of Death”

She wonders why so many come to eye her
“how come I earn their undesired ugly ire?”
Feeling justified, in putting loved ones inside urns,
sometimes adjusts her number and it jumps so high,
shrugs, opining that she must've tried
morphine to help at least a hundred die.
Either way, you'd run and hide, or she'd happily snuff your life.
A hilarious and horrendous death time planner,

Jane surely had a most memorable bedside manner.



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