Negligence Villanelle

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The elements of Negligence are these:
A duty, breached, that causes real harm.
Identify them all to earn your fees!

Tortfeasors all will tremble at the knees
If you can prove with all your wit and charm
Such paradigms of Negligence as these:

Those doctors who should cure you of disease--
Those bungling sawbones cutting the wrong arm--
(Identify them all to earn your fees!)

The landlord with the risky premises:
The mantrap masquerading as a farm:
The paragons of Negligence are these!

The drunken drivers--damn their expertise
At driving home with an unsteady arm:
Identify them all to earn your fees!

And so, young lawyer, just for a reprise:
A duty, breached, that causes real harm--
The elements of Negligence are these.
Identify them all, and earn your fees!