Aileen Wuornos

by Jonathan Riccio

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Maybe it was my last name, vowel order abnormal

Grandpa Lauri
          my adopter my assaulter
          the way genetics cliffhangs you into place

Brother Keith
          cancer before fireworks when a man dies in July

Richard Mallory
          Clearwater Floridian
          geography ungainly where a woman self-wardens

Peter Siems
          the oldest at 65
          I before phonetically aged he

Walter Jeno Antonio
          could have been a Tony or a Gene
          the men we moniker

No clemency in female

The mystique a volition takes