Sense Sonnet - Steamer

P.T. Barnum's Sucker Search

P.T. Barnum's show biz began
When he did buy Joice Heth, a slave.
Then advertisements P.T. ran.
Hundred sixty years old, Heth gave
Child nursing to George Washington.
Lots of skeptics questioned her age.
P.T. had an autopsy done,
After Heth died, on a public stage.
Of course the public paid a fee
To hear Heth was eighty years old.
The hoax did not deter P.T.
Joice Heth was still alive he told.

Sucker folks - P.T. was in it.
"A sucker's born ev'ry minute."