02-03-2013, 07:38 PM
"I am really very, very sorry that they have abolished capital punishment." - Miss Marple
Everyone was caught or died. A shot would be heard
as Poirot wrapped up, implying appropriate harm.
Or else the foppish coward who strangled his sponsor
would burst into tears and be dragged off to hang.
Ah, Justice! Old and chintzy, warm as tea.
England as it should have been: green and gay,
where evil rots like lost apples, fallen in the weeds.
Everyone was caught or died. A shot would be heard
as Poirot wrapped up, implying appropriate harm.
Or else the foppish coward who strangled his sponsor
would burst into tears and be dragged off to hang.
Ah, Justice! Old and chintzy, warm as tea.
England as it should have been: green and gay,
where evil rots like lost apples, fallen in the weeds.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe