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Michelle K. and I collabed on this story poem for the CPC Thematic Attic Thursday poetry challenge, where the theme is to write about a train ride, with a mysterious lady involved.  We alternated two lines each off the cuff until we were done.

Whodunnit

It happened on the Orient Express;
a shadow of a woman getting undressed.
Two boys peeked while playing a game of chess,
curious about what they might see,
till a loud noise made them both flee
right past a tall dark man in white,
who startled the boys and gave them a fright,
so the boys tried to find a place to hide.
Then someone shouted: “A lady has died!”
and a crowd rushed past their hiding place,
The boys hoped they had not left a trace
of their presence in the hallway.
They both crept to see where the body lay,
but it was not the woman they had seen!
The other woman was much more lean.
They suspected the tall man in white
until he gave them each a bottle of Sprite
and told them: “there’s nothing to see here boys.
Now run along and play with your toys.”

Then the train made a sudden stop.
Onto the train hopped a uniformed cop
who leaned over the body and said: “This is odd!”
“It seems she was poisoned, we must call the squad
in a manhunt for the woman’s killer!”
The body was examined by Dr. Miller,
who finally pronounced: “she is just asleep!”
and OMG it’s Meryl Streep!”
Everyone got her autograph
and had an oriental expressive laugh.

Copyright May 11th 2011 RGD & MRK