11-18-2025, 09:24 AM
I prefer fiction
True crime is invariably boring,
too unnecessarily gory
or clever by default, enabled by the investigator’s stupidity,
judge magistrates paid off, and the sort of cupidity
you can bank on. Herman Goering
joking about the Jews or Speer’s made up story:
“I knew nothing about it! ‘Twas Himmler, the boary
genocidal pig!” written from his cell in Spandau,
with a mental alacrity
that’d have impressed Lev Davidovich Landau.
No, give to me a concocted world. Like Walter Mitty
I’ll gladly live in it, and savour the crimes
of masterminds shooting for criminal glory;
the saturnine Moriarty in a Victorian smokehouse,
Dr Armstrong contemplating his Belgian nemesis,
and the heroes: Holmes thinking in a coke house,
Father Brown reading from Genesis.
Far better than cops and judges paid up -
the beauty of murder that is made up.
True crime is invariably boring,
too unnecessarily gory
or clever by default, enabled by the investigator’s stupidity,
judge magistrates paid off, and the sort of cupidity
you can bank on. Herman Goering
joking about the Jews or Speer’s made up story:
“I knew nothing about it! ‘Twas Himmler, the boary
genocidal pig!” written from his cell in Spandau,
with a mental alacrity
that’d have impressed Lev Davidovich Landau.
No, give to me a concocted world. Like Walter Mitty
I’ll gladly live in it, and savour the crimes
of masterminds shooting for criminal glory;
the saturnine Moriarty in a Victorian smokehouse,
Dr Armstrong contemplating his Belgian nemesis,
and the heroes: Holmes thinking in a coke house,
Father Brown reading from Genesis.
Far better than cops and judges paid up -
the beauty of murder that is made up.