Murder On The Haiku Express

 

 

Too many people

Crowded station drives me mad

Good to get away

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Find a window seat

Settle down and people watch

Safely behind glass

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Would you look at her

Running in stiletto heels

Too sharp for the rest

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Landscape runs away

Back towards city skyline

Train whistle blowing

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Dinner served at six

Opposite stiletto girl

Barely ate a thing

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Sat up through the night

Thoughts of impossible things

Long before breakfast

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Years ago I swore

To take my medication

My forgotten law

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Breakfast was a bore

Eggs and bacon, toast and tea

No croissants for me

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There she is again

Tottering on her high heels

All to attract men

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Smiling and flirting

The old men salivating

I prefer the scene

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Today I will sit

Watching the Nullarbor sway

Side to side on tracks

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Perfectly perfect

Dreaming of rainbow serpents

Slithering in red

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Communal supper

Oodles of noodles and tea

No one talks to me

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I’m invisible

Wearing my magical cloak

Treading carefully

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Another dark night

Rattle of the railway tracks

Startled by a scream

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Emergency cord

Pulled with help of gravity

Of situation

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Whispers of murder

To and fro along the train

Travelling past me

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Here come the police

Helicopter rests on land

Previously free

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Interview us all

One by one we answer true

Truly was not me

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Through the open door

Death rictus the victims smile

Frozen now in time

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Stiletto woman

Not a drop of blood in sight

Tablets with her tea

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Hours later they leave

Accidental overdose

That they all agree

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World begins to move

Leaving my worries behind

Lightness of my mind

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Many a lover

Scorned and left for another

Would do as I did

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I the murderer

My written confessional

Witnessed in haiku

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Copyright July 2019