Bludgeoned With an Elephant Tusk (For Virginia Rappe)

Born to a young mother Dead in a sanitarium A Paradise Garden A century of slander A ruptured bladder Bludgeoned with an elephant tusk Taken from the womb Chewed up Spit out And plastered on magazines Hollywood starlet Silent film harlot Crushed between flesh and sheets Motion picture propaganda Saving Fatty's skin Have you forgotten the story of the pitcher That goes to the well just once too often? A victim of Fatty's death orgy Lost to time Lost over the Rhine