The Dangers Of Literature - Oscar Milde

Literature is fascinating:
keen discussions, sharp debating,
makes us fervent, animated.

Literature is complicated.
Some like poems, others prose:
rhyme or reason, I suppose.

Not contentious, one might think
unless you add The Demon Drink
then it’s a case of life or death.

Two Russian drunks, with vodka breath,
grew heated in their chilly hut:
one stabbed the other in the gut.

When charged with this outrageous crime,
he claimed to be defending rhyme.
His sorry victim lies in state:
murdered for being literate.

Oscar Milde
Based on a true story!