Something Awful Comes This Way!

This round requires:

Four stanzas made up of two rhyming couplets. The goal here is to be funny and be awful.

Take any figure (it must be a real human, alive or historical) and an event related to them as your starting point. My example is Socrates death sentence in ancient Athens. The poem is about death by garlic.

If the above prompt doesn't trip your trigger, than parody a poem by William Blake, as long as it is 16 lines (and please cite poem at bottom.)


Example:

Caught as spy I had no choices
Death I reckoned, soul divorces
A court supreme did drone decrees
A cruel death they appointed me.

So as Socrates did discern
Ways to die, how not to burn.
Finally choose one way to die:
Gastronomic suicide.

My innards not young, not fit
for garlic doses ill-equipped.
Upon the couch of doom recline,
chew Ravioli, death by dine.

I stare at walls, wait for death to come
pray for doses of Imodium,
Slowly accept this doom of mine
To close my eyes, no more to Rhyme.

Note bene: First place is won... this round will determine 2nd and 3rd places... deadline is noon tomorrow, when the prizes will be awarded.