Bleak Black Celebrity

A crime so repulsively heinous it
boggles the mind that when he recorded
himself eviscerating the man he had
just killed and noting for posterity before
he posted it that the parts were a carnivore's
delight the atrocity provided entertainment
and evoked envy among those for whom
such atrocities were treats to be savoured.
An international search through Interpol
brought him back to the scene of the
crime where he was charged, tried and
convicted, a man whose posturing and
egocentric hubris transfixed a reluctant
audience with disbelief that anyone could
become such a monster. The mute grief
of the victim's parents as they sat day
after day through the trial before returning
to their own country to mourn their son
there, seared the memories of the public
compassionate in their own sorrow that
society could raise such a deviant wretch.
Mother of the sadistic murderer though
begs to differ; they don't know her son but
she does, a lovely human being with not
an ounce of venom in his heart for anyone
for he played with kittens not as charged
tormented then killed them. But it is the
kindheartedness of the national prison
system that places everything in its proper
perspective when it arranged for his
marriage with conjugal rights to another
prisoner as they couple for a lifetime of
what others call happily wedded bliss.