Wellington 'clown' murder trial pushed back to 2022 at defense's request. (Hannah Winston, for the Palm Beach Post.)

 

"On May 26, 1990, Marlene Warren was shot in the doorway of her Wellington Aero Club home and died several days later. Witnesses, including her son, said someone dressed as a clown came to the door, presented her with flowers and balloons, then shot her in the face." 

The clown assassin is a trope

that's had its day, I really hope.

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Too often in the recent past

have clowns brought forth the fatal blast.

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Their killing sprees no longer thrill;

you might say it is overkill.

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And when the amateur attempts

to settle some old contretemps

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by putting on cheap makeup and

bumping off a gal or man

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I hope Grimaldi and his heirs

do not yank out their orange hairs!

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I'm sorry that this poem stinks so;

but what d'yer expect from an old Bozo?