AH YES….THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, BY CHARLES DICKENS. HE DIDN’T GET IT FINISHED EITHER—AND OUR ENGLISH LITERATURE CLASS IN COLLEGE….MAYBE FOR GENERATIONS…MADE THE ATTEMPT!!!!! 😀
Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth
The author would write feverishly
Behind doors tightly shut
Until a tragic accident
A fatal paper cut
Which nicked a major artery
And silenced thoughts and pen
And such a shame this happened
Between volumes 9 and 10
Which disappointed readers so
For those who did take tally
Would know that 10 would culminate
In the series finale
So his family thought real hard
‘Bout his final request
To have the series brought unto
An end upon his death
But greed did fill their thoughts and jailbait
Wife easily swayed
The minds of kin who never really
Liked him anyway
And so it was the pen bestowed
In hands of Cousin Kevin
Who finished chapter 10 and then
Went on to write 11.
Who thought it best the mom die by
Spontaneous combustion
And had grandma fall victim to
An alien abduction
And made a Frankenstein robot
A silent deadly…
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