Love’s Like That
by John Stocks
Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain; for murder, after a tempestuous marriage to a violent husband, on July 13, 1955. |
A slow-burning flux of clichés, For years you walked the crooked path It was neither wrong nor right, From the first flirtatious tribulations So why did you put up with it: Nobody heard your screams, |
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