"'Alas, and woe is me, O" (978). This is from "Edward" by anonymous. Why are anonymous poem always more awesome? And in this case, really creepy. I think I like this poem because a) it actually tells a narrative in it and b) it has a what-the-heck-I-wasn't-expecting-that moment. Both, to me at least, always makes a poem more interesting. In the first part of the poem, Edward lies to his mom about who/what he killed, but she finds out he killed his dad. What is interesting to me about this is that the mom doesn't at all seem upset. In fact, she's encouraging him to run away and everything will be fine if he goes somewhere else. But the what-the-heck moment comes at the end when he pretty much tells his mom to go to hell. That's not very nice.