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Now a violent change in tone,
from lightness to a horror

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poem, a sort of horror poem.

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I am addicted to reading
murder mysteries,

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or whodunits as we call
them, we aficionados.

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And you can tell from
the details in this poem

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that they've come from
reading murder mysteries.

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I thought I would write
a poem about the greatest

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murderer of all, who
will never be caught.

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And this is called
The Case of The.

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Drinking the seconal dissolved
in bourbon, stabbed in the fog,

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shoved into quicksand, caught
in the telescopic sight,

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feeling a sudden pressure
on the carotids from behind.

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Scalped, buried, bombed,
smothered in cellophane.

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Another blow and another
savage, fast, unreasoning.

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In Amsterdam, Gary,
Indonesia, Alabama, Budapest.

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Perilous, perilous, the
keeping of the human spirit.

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Killed everywhere.

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On the train, in the
tomb, generosity.

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At the racetrack, grace.

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At the tiller , down the sewers,
in the unguarded hospital room,

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willingness.

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In the London slum, on
the plane, at the mountain

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resort strength.

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In the pew, on Golden
Gate Bridge, affection.

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Nowhere to hide.

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Everywhere, everywhere someone
is out looking for you.

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One, with his mouth
hung open to hear,

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grunts huh after
every statement.

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Huh.

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His prostate swells, blood
pressure, bangs his head.

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This country's gone to the
dogs, and the hippies can go to.

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And one pees 14 times a
night, missing the bedpan

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every other time.

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Her false teeth
clicking with malice,

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she whispers, if you don't
watch them every minute,

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they steal you blind.

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Are the passersby in collusion?

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Did the victim
deserve what he got?

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The search for evidence
goes on and on,

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the light burns, the sirens
whine, the long report says,

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you only live once.

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Fingerprints, autopsies,
exhumations tell us

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a great deal, but the shoes
don't fit anyone we know.

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As for the bodies,
some were fair of face,

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some had nothing to lose.

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On the last page, the one-eyed
witness, trapped by the DA,

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drops his dreams and his lies.

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His squirrel mouth opens,
and he squeals all he knows.

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The sun done it, coming up
every damn morning like it does.

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