have seen a news spirit come over the peace agencies engaged in the war
on crime. This spirit rose with the entrance of Finger Print Science into
the battle.


You’ve got your plain loops, plain arches, tented arches, twin loops,
lateral pocket loops, central pocket loops, whorls, and your accidentals


Found: his nineteen-year-old testicles
                     in a bag in the river

How can that be shriven

Found: fourth body of a woman
                in a barrel

The man in the middle is Jesus

Bullets from a sawed-off gun fan out faster

170 tablets of Ecstasy
            What if it’s the drugs, stupid

Than those from unmodified guns

Stippling is mostly confined to a 2- to 3-foot distance

How can that be shriven

Had taken to smoking 5 to 10 blunts a day

Water with a stomach wound is fatal

A jacketed bullet drives faster than a lead bullet

Well what do you know
          the former governor has employed von Bülow’s lawyer

People are bummed about the gag order

Just another miracle at Tickfaw

The pretty one from Natchitoches, her son is three;
          she has not seen him for a year and a half

                           That’s hard

Powder-tattooing, that’s close-range fire, leaves a circular pattern
          of black residue

The pretty one, that does hair, her son is two,
          she’s a natural lifer
                                                          That’s hard
          MOM    LOVE    GOD

Stacked blonde with sexy facial cicatrix

Wants the photos for her portfolio

You should see her cakes
          Esp. the one of the crucifixion

He was pronounced dead at 8:06 p.m.
She was pronounced dead at 8:16 p.m.
          one solitary day after their 14th wedding anniversary

BE JUST: inscription made by the harrow

Pour all the blood back into the earth

A woman’s hand will close your eyes

Transfiguration kicks in

The red ribbon is for AIDS counseling
Pink for breast cancer counseling

The field line is wearing sombreros this year

The women like Guiding Light

          him: 3 jolts in 2 minutes and 45 seconds
          her: 5 jolts, 4 minutes and 30 seconds

Orange is field line; Sky Blue is custom sewing

No one’s beat the dogs yet, said Castlebury

Cigarettes still coin of the realm: 
          at summer camp, it’s beef jerky

The warden took a Butterfinger from one of the escapees,
          ate half of it in front of him; fed the rest to the pack leader

Sebastian Melmoth, Wilde’s pseudonym upon release
          but he was pretty much finished with literature by then

Who felt chosen to teach
          the meaning of sorrow and its beauty

that is, literature was pretty much finished with Wilde

AC or DC
          You want to be Westinghoused or Edisoned
          Your pick    you’re the one condemned

Tennessee’s retired chair available on eBay

Caravaggio, his Deposition from the Cross (1604)
          a revolutionary use of light

          murdered his tennis partner

          for whatever it’s worth

My friend here no longer sleeps in her own bed in
          her own house by her own self

The Heisenberg principle applies
        
          you change what you observe
EVERYTHING IS PERSONAL

Did you ever do anything illegal
           Maybe        Maybe not      Depends on your definition of legal

Who you going to believe me or my lying eyes

The goal is to transcend the course taken by blood
          color-coded authority        paternal cruelty

All these days I’ve been off death row
          death row has not been off me
                                                                 the words of an exonerated man
Amaranthus, love lies bleeding to death
                                                                 they call the summer poinsettia