From the fussy resort towns of California, the quirky hamlets of New England, and the dusty cow-towns of the Old West come yet more police blotter haiku.
As always, these haiku are adapted from short "police blotter" crime stories in the newspapers that serve these obscure burgs. Some blotter items are funny, some are almost zen, and some make you want to bang your head against the wall.
This time I won't include the text of the original blotter items: just the haiku themselves. Tell me if you like the haiku better with, or without. And of course, enjoy.
Which is important?
That a dog barked for three days,
or the reason why?
A missing car is
not always a stolen car.
The repo man knows.
Stolen, while he slept:
his pants, off the bedroom floor.
With wallet inside.
Bongo drum yard sale.
Folks stopped by to try them out.
For two days solid.
A “suspicious” van
contained a sleeping man who
moved along when asked
Their son called to say
he’s coming by to shoot them.
They’d rather he not.
He said he’d fallen.
His bruises said something else --
but were overruled.
They dumped old desks on
a stranger's land -- but left their
address in a drawer.
The" large snake" in his
yard was found by police to be
small and also dead.
On the street, on drugs
and holding two screwdrivers:
His cell was waiting.
Police Blotter Posts So Far
Police Blotter Haiku
More Police Blotter Haiku
Son of More Police Blotter Haiku
Even More Police Blotter Haiku: Now with Source Material!
Bride of the Son of Even More Police Blotter Haiku
Police Blotter Haiku: the Legend Continues
Police Blotter Haiku for a Sunny Sunday
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2 comments:
Without the backstory is better. Lucas should never have spoiled Star Wars by filling in the backstory.
Cheers
Thanks, Otepoti. That's my view as well. But a friend raised the issue and I thought I'd test it. So far that's two votes for without and none for with.
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