Poefect Setting For A Murderous Crime
Heart stalked the street
Attitude not too sweet
Told tales too tall
Audience very small
Nobody heard
His word
“I did not lie”
Claimed Heart’s alibi
That no one purchased a buy
From those
Wearing, a professional investigative nose
Believing, tempting stories with flask
Embellished by the drunken class
Featuring, evil characters wearing masks
Loitering near the harbor one night
Heart caught in his sight
A man leaving the bar
“It’s the credible newspaper star!”
He harked
Before following the gumshoe through the dark
Heart closed in on the gothic journalist mark
Wondering if the storyteller had information to report
That could deliver someone to criminal court
Picking up the pace
Heart raced
Catching the prima donna figure
Whose popularity getting bigger
Question wanted asked
Getting answers was Heart’s task
Suddenly the man fell
Soul was pulled towards heaven or hell
“What happened
I didn’t even tap him”
Heart exclaimed
About the man’s destiny filled with fame
Quickly detectives arrived
Heart told them how the man died
“He did not lie”
Heart repeated
Underneath the interrogation lamp heated
“Spinning tall tales?”
Judged the legal scale
Knowing this was the final nail
Each coffin would use to close
Trapping both Heart and Poe
“Glad they are gone,”
Many chatted when alone
Until Poe’s ghost appeared
Holding a reporter's notebook spear
Scribing, confirming, this world was too weird
When murder can happen after a sudsy beer
Legend states heaven Poe went
While prison Heart ended up sent
Opening a haunting book
Entertaining readers to this day with its mysterious hook
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