There was jello in the fingerprints Detective Dulllight discovered.
It proved to be the most important finding in the case And where as
Detectives Slocks and Slovits slobbered over
Smutty photographs Dulllight had a better lead to follow.
He followed the ringing to the telephone where a voice asked
Excuse me arent you so and so?
Oh so and so since you left I have been eating only sweets
Cause they remind me of you. He felt this surely was a clue.
So he climbed into the tub wearing his underwear and overcoat,
Jumped aboard the mono boat and followed the water down the drain.
In his brain there are file cabinets and
Secretaries filing their nails downstairs
But I dont want to talk about that room downstairs.
At this moment Detective Slocks and Slovets realize that since they
Had reported on the crime scene this
Morning each of them has aged over fifty years.
Two butterflies land on their
Shoulders and harmonize softly in their ears
Where did all the time go?
Did you think that youd stay young forever?
But at least youre still together…
The two detectives held hands in the moonlight.
The butterflies flew away which prompted Slovits to say,
Its queer, but I miss them already.
Slocks removed a fountain pen from his breast pocket,
Drove it deep into Slovits throat and began screeching
DEATH TO THE PARCHMENT WHALE, THE ROBOT IAM LASAILE.
While in prison,
Slocks wrote one of the most revered exercises in free verse titled
The Cause of Gauze.
Oh the cause of gauze,
The Manuels have fondled many memories from my lap
Though each memory has its own lap and swimmers swim laps.
Even swimmers have laps however and while in
That condition many require a delicate gauze.
I desire only this in my decrepitude,
That I will have one more opportunity to serve as a gauze to my
Fellow man and that in that state of gauze can somehow disturb the
World less often with my prickly fingers.
When Detective Dulllight returning from the catacombs first heard
The news of the Slocks and Slovets stabbing and subsequent poetry
Enterprise he immediately fell to the floor
And began plucking peaches from his cheeks.
This eventually became a tiresome activity so he
Evaporated into the cream a float a childs bedtime coco
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