Ode to a Dead Girl in Ohio

She was as still as death before it struck her

I told her to wear non-matching earrings,

Not knowing that fate would take her life.

They found her body two doors down from mine

This was after her murderer came after me,

When I was running on our school's track team.

He pulled alongside me in his white sedan car,

Saying, "You look tired; climb on in. It's okay."

As I had read "The Lodger" about Jack the Ripper,

I didn't climb into his car. That's what saved me.

Then my friends like proud Valkyries also dove

Straight toward his car, scaring him away from me.

They then left, saying "No thanks are necessary."

It was a day or two later they found the body

Of the daughter of a man from my Dad's work.

I told the disgusted cops that the car was white,

And they let me know that wasn't good enough.

I don't believe they ever caught the old man.

What of the dead girl? Was it really her they

Had found, or just another ripper victim - there

Was no way for me to know, and therefore she

Was just another victim of the rippers of Ohio.