Sonnet for Osama bin Laden

"Sonnet for Osama bin Laden" is a poem written by Edna Sweetlove in 2011 as part of an "insulting sonnets" competition on AllPoetry.com.

Original text
The world will not forget you, O Osama, You rubbed the Yankee flag in deepest shit; To all your people you were a charmer; At the end you laughed at death, unafraid of it. No one will forget when the towers crumbled And the Pentagon's fragile walls were breached; How the Arab World, so long sore humbled, Relished the revenge they had beseeched. Though murdered by a gang of mercenaries, Shot in the face whilst your daughter wept, Your name will live on in Islamic memories, Never from history's page to be swept. Famed for fighting the Great Satanic foe; Who next will follow where you dared to go?