Jack

• Tiana Yee, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2017

Jack; the ripper to be specific
How could such a person be so horrific?
It started off with one; her name Mary Ann Nichols,
The street she was murdered on, smelt of dirty coals.
And so the man went crazy, sanity lost
Citizens went into a frenzy, their faithful fingers crossed
Crazier, Crazier, Crazier
Jack was well off
Who was he, though?
Nobody uncovered his face
This man of bloody, murderous disgrace
After the fifth mistress that was made a mystery,
The crimes stopped and were encrypted in history
For he disappeared into the Victorian black,
His victims' jaws fell slack.