CLUES


Always leave a clue for the police. A body or two, a wife, a broken bed, a lipstick kiss on a window, a stone in a shoe, a pair of half-burnt crutches in the fireplace, an alarm clock in the refrigerator, a balcony railing carefully cut into twenty-seven equal size pieces, a donkey braying in the cellar. Whatever, almost anything can be a clue; almost anything will make the police happy; & that of course is the aim – to keep the police happy. There is only one exception. Never leave a poem. A poem will utterly confound the police. They won't know what to do with it. They'll shrug their shoulders & go off in a huff. They'll have no choice but to close the case – Unsolved.