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Thursday, April 24, 2025

the perfect crime


by horace p sternwall





adam woke up
and eve was gone
he went outside
and mowed the lawn

a light was on
across the road
in the humble home
of colonel toad

adam thought
this is the time
to finally commit
the perfect crime

adam and the colonel
went back a long way
to armageddon
and judgment day

adam was a monkey
and the colonel was a clown
the circus was stuck
in a one horse town

salome had absconded
with the weeks receipts
and prophets wandered
the muddy streets

the lion and the trainer
were drunk in their tent
and moses wondered
what it all meant

what it all means
the colonel declared
is that murder will out
and life is not fair

adam nodded
and sewed a button on his pants
and thought, some day
i will have my chance





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