Farewell to a Fiend

Tick tock tick tock

Goes the grandfather clock

As she wanders down the hall

Past cobwebbed peeling papered walls.

Skitter skatter skitter skatter

Mouse and cat go pitter-patter

Passed her blood-soaked hemline skirt

That drags through rust the dust the dirt.

Hush shush hush shush

The voices in her head all gush

Rest now child at last he's dead

His body's girth one last time fled.

Clang Elaine clang Elaine

The chains of prison yell her name

She smiles in spite of the pain

He'll never utter hers again.