LPiA-25 Nov. 22

[busker]

None Since



The thing about John Wilkes Booth
  aside from setting a fashion
  of triple-barrel names for assassins
      his being derived via his parents
      from an English sort-of populist
      long-jawed John Wilkes
was that he headed a real conspiracy
  you know, Surratt, Powell, that lot
and did the job himself.

Such cannot be said
of more recent assassins and wannabes
who tend to be either cat’s-paws
  of conspiracies so high and nebulous
  as to be near-ineffable
or obvious randos
  Squeaky’s Manson ties can scarcely
  count as a cabal.

So Booth set an anti-example
  to be avoided, in particular,
  due to his being shot soon after
  and his co-conspirators
  discovered almost instantly
  suffering that long assisted
  drop on a short rope
  before Summer was out.

Interesting take.
Nice one.