A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Friday, October 25, 2019

the individual on the loose

Police are on the lookout
according to witnesses
a smart, capable
reformed college professor
reported last seen
in several locations
seen entering seen exiting
apparently without effort
no evidence of entry
no DNA was found
in the corpse
matching descriptions
of angels and dangerous
spirits - authorities
have brought in assistance
from paranormal charlatans
whose predictions have been
characterized as optimistic
at best, and are confident
a televised press conference
will provide further details
directly as they are available.
They can do nothing more
until the press conference,
where serious clues are expected
to be divulged by the assembled press. We have nothing
further to go on. Meanwhile,
panic. Stay in your homes
get out of your streets
keep away from cities, bridges,
lunatics and plastic imitation omens
- one slip and these errors will kill you
kill you
say the authorities
kill you
obey or die, basically
the individual on the loose
we cannot be responsible for, and
you will die, unless
you stay safe
and do it right. Don't say

we weren't warned. Yes
you were.

We just did
We wash our hands of fate
in this.

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