The Sinister Dr. Linda Hazzard

She treated her patients by fasting them,
In woods across waters from Seattle.
"Wilderness Heights" - grand sanitarium,
Starving most whose bones began to rattle.

Around Olalla walked the skeletons,
And locals called the place "Starvation Heights".
She fed them daily soup without croutons,
Followed with enemas speeding up plights.

Then caused the death of a British Heiress,
Whose possessions the evil doctor stole.
Sale of the gold teeth led to her arrest;
Two years in prison, could it quite console?

Met her sinister end- don't hold your breath,
Yes- Indeed she fasted herself to death!


A Shakespearian Sonnet

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