Oedipus Hex by James Krendel-Clark

“If, as Ernest Hemmingway declared, all modern American literature comes from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, then it may be said with equal assurance that all modern American horror comes from the outrages of Ed Gein.”
-Harold Schlechter, True Crime: An American Anthology
The following poem is loosely inspired by those outrages.