NERO WOOLF’S LAST CASE
(’74 – ’75)
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– CHAPTER 1
– The clues were many…
fraternizing with clichés
& ‘ing’ endings,
undetermined sentences,
22-caliber puns…
– The Poet Patrol surrounds
his unlicensed poem factory…
– “Luís, c’mon out with your Royal up…
turn in your images!”
– Defiantly, he shouts,
– – “Truth is a myth!”
– CHAPTER 2
– “How do you plead guilty or else?”
– – “Innocent, by reasonable dissonance.”
– “The State will prove collusion
between the accused
and the Benevolent Union of Rhyming Poets,
or BURP.”
– Famous attorney Kuntzler B. Poetaster
argues for the defense:
– “Your honor, in the best plea bargaining tradition,
my client changes his stanza
to nolo bullshitus.”
– – “Motion denied! You’re ordered to attend
a Rod McKuen reading, or 30 days!”
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