Magpie #55 "Five Dead in Orange Juice Explosion"

"Secure the Crime Scene"
A Detective screamed
A "river of blood"
thick sticky drying mud

The slaughter had created such horrific splatters
DNA on every square inch and the kitchen platters
The orange the thing they were quarrelling over
The knife used as a weapon by the one-time lover

"Of all the things"
A Coroner panged
"Isn't that...oh my gosh; a bloody finger!"
What the...in the blender it did linger?

The madness did seem off-beat and surreal
slightly odd how the sanguine did congeal
Certainly not a sight one would want to see
Enough gore makes the heart skip; the stomach reel

"I need fresh air" The rookie sheepishly pleaded
Proby piped "Get him outside before he teeters"
Stated point blank by the Chief "Crimes of Passion do not pay!
Should have shared the last orange; not been so screwy today"


the Rookie came to after a dose of smelling salts
seemed he never fainted nor had he seen orange juice cults
not for the weak-kneed, no backboned or lazy lounge lizards
Post-Traumatic Shock and the new bloody occupational hazards"

jj

Visual Image courtesy of Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

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