He became an ogre when his luck was on the line;
His mistress left him, his con business went under.
He beat his wife for stress relief six times.
Too drunk to beat her one more time,
He’d planned a seventh attack the next day.
He never got the chance, his wife beat him to it;
She stabbed him to death in the back sixty times.
And that was the celebrated end
Of the Con King, Diamonds Jack.
Bob Boyd