Call Me Columbo Please

I watched Columbo season after season, Amazed at how close we were in unkempt appearance, Disregard for fashion, comfortable in the same clothes He had a soft non-threatening way about him The perpetrators were never worried, Sure they could outsmart this hayseed He would have them explain things until he got them, acting like he was slow, so they would have to dumb it down Actually, he was listening for their mistakes Just one more thing, he would say, walking back into the room That is when I knew he had somehow figured it out. It was like watching a grown up Encyclopedia Brown It thrilled me week after week after week He appeared non-threatening, unassuming putting them off guard. Realizing that the most common acting person Is possibly the most brilliant is incredibly reassuring, and empowering.