Short Perp Poems

Cecilia’s silliest cause:
To vandalize parks for guffaws.
   The cops quickly caught her
   When Bob Brickley’s daughter
Saw saucy Cece saw seesaws....

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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
knew how to snag a gun totin' perp,
loved the ladies, but never liquor.
He was a habitual ice cream licker! 

For Kim's Cleri-who? Contest, 5/31/15...

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soulless patch o’er socket
his trusty parrot on shoulder
red and green molting hues falling
a dead shot hole, smoking
perp impaled by the pirate’s hook

5/16/2019
68868LIND Form
Not for contest...

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I hear a cry from the kitchen:
“Who did it? Who’s the perp?
Who dumped down this slime and sludge?
The garbage disposal went burp!”




Contest Name: Your Best Quatrain
Sponsor: L. Milton Hankins...

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Lindsey, Lindsey, Lady Spy
Are you ready for the next thriller?
Can you pin down this horse fly?
Lindsey, Lindsey, princess chiller
Found no clues, no motives,no reason why
Lindsey, Lindsey, community pillar
But you're the reason that we die,
Lindsey, Lindsey, perp driller
Have you been sleeping with a killer?...

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There were three reliable eye witnesses to the robbery.
I was the first detective on the scene; 
did not even have time to put on my overcoat.
One said the perpetrator was young, blonde, five nine, thin.
Another said he was dark-skinned, thirty-five-ish, stocky, with green eyes.
A third said he was not sure if the perp was a woman or a man.
I gave this guy a business card to my other business.
When I am not solving crime from my easy chair, I sell eyeglasses....

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