3105. THE CUT-SHAVERS

THE CUT SHAVERS

Police work bores the hell
out of real men. Taking notes
at the scene of a crime like some
useless girl positioning bloodstains
on a cotton mat. Playing softball
for the PBA. Donating money to
rotten kids. It's all such baloney.
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A cop is a criminal by any other
means - so it is said. The firefighter
setting fires, the mortician killing
people. Everything the same : we
envy what we most wish ourselves
to do. Hanging out, with drinks,
beneath the carport at nine.
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My documented notebooks all show
you to be a creep. We've studied
your mannered ways - you've got
nothing to show but your bad reputation;
however that came to be. The prison
guard with the one bad arm, he says
you were the one who did it all.
The culprit behind every caper.