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Show, Don’t Tell
Posted by Tom Busillo on October 26, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/10/26/show-dont-tell/
The Continuing Adventures of Detective Frank Green
In some cases
indeed, death does come
like a thief in the night,
wearing latex gloves
and a mask,
careful of what it touches.
I’m Detective Frank Green.
I used to work Vice.
Now I work Homicide.
I make my living
bringing killers and murderers to justice
then watching justice smack them silly
with a big old justice silly stick.
Homicides by nurses in a hospital setting
have tripled over the last 40 years.
Now, I don’t mean to scare you away from
receiving proper medical attention,
which may include admittance to a hospital bed
for an overnight stay
or a stay of a much longer duration.
Those are just the facts.
But it’s just one more reason to get yourself
or your loved ones
off the cancer sticks.
Because if you smoke,
you will eventually land in a hospital bed
and you will have an open IV crying out
“please fill me with potassium cyanide”
in a language understood by only sociopathic nurses
or nurse practitioners
or sociopaths pretending to be nurses
or nurse practitioners.
Posted by Tom Busillo on February 22, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/02/22/the-continuing-adventures-of-detective-frank-green-3/
The Continuing Adventures of Detective Frank Green
One doesn’t press the grapes for
evidence of the wine,
especially when the grapes are
clearly tagged as evidence themselves.
I’m Detective Frank Green.
I used to work Vice.
Now I work Homicide.
And nothing pisses me off more
than when some gung-ho s*&t for brains
improperly handles a key piece of evidence
allowing a cold-blooded killer to walk free,
putting him back to the streets where he can –
AND MOST DEFINITELY WILL – kill again.
You hear that Perkins?
Posted by Tom Busillo on September 25, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/09/25/the-continuing-adventures-of-detective-frank-green-2/
The Continuing Adventures of Detective Frank Green
What are a young hare, a young falcon, and a young owl called?
If they have paid or agreed to pay money
in exchange for the performance of sexual acts
they are called guilty of Solicitation.
I’m Detective Frank Green.
I work Vice.
The night shift.
I bust hookers, their pimps and their johns.
It’s a living.
I know there’s peer pressure to begin engaging in
sexual activity and that pressure can only get worse
when you are a virgin and are about to graduate from
college, but the law is the law, and if I catch you –
I’m gonna bust you.
And besides, you don’t want to
go through life knowing that
your first time
you had to pay for it.
Posted by Tom Busillo on September 22, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/09/22/the-continuing-adventures-of-detective-frank-green/
Little Sue
loving organisms die
and now disease can be blown in
or brought in by birds or animals
that lunch box
or thermos
begins to get thin
Little Sue
with an obstructed bowel
whittles a small corncob
into a doll of a little girl
with an obstructed bowel
named Littler Sue who
whittles a smaller corncob
into a doll of a littler girl
named Even Littler Sue
who is still awaiting test results
from her gastroenterologist
but is hopeful it’s nothing
swimmers
arrive in wheelchairs
during flooding
and someone’s mother finds a way
to prevent wax from sticking to
a candle holder
Posted by Tom Busillo on August 24, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/08/24/little-sue/
Right Side
When crocheting your projects
you may have come across the terms
"right side" and "wrong side."
In a nut shell, "right side" refers
to the side more effective for
combating colorectal cancer.
Posted by Tom Busillo on August 2, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/08/02/right-side/
There’s a Norwegian in the Woodpile
There’s a Norwegian in the woodpile.
COD appears to be GSW to upper torso.
Likely a shotgun blast at close range.
Wallet found on victim indicates
deceased’s name is Olaf Christiansen;
age 42; residence, Olso, Norway.
Business cards found in wallet suggest
Mr. Christiansen is probably employed
in the computer software industry.
My name is Detective Frank Green.
I’ll be straight with you –
I don’t like Norwegians.
Hate them in fact.
Ever since my boyhood best buddy Bjorn Bjornstad
stole my girl Shirley Templeton
right out from under me in 7th grade.
They’re married now.
Been married for 32 years.
When I think of her
up in their house of Hill Street
slaving over the torsketunger for him
it makes me want to vomit.
But I took an oath to uphold the law.
I will search for the killer of this
deceased 42-year old Norwegian male
just as if it was my own father there
in the woodpile with a shotgun blast to the chest.
It’s my sworn duty.
from “The Continuing Adventures of Detective Frank Green”
Posted by Tom Busillo on June 4, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/06/04/there%e2%80%99s-a-norwegian-in-the-woodpile/
The Author Was Found Dead at His Desk
I query the quib.
I examine the pen.
Words can be deadly, but
This was a stabbing.
My name is Detective Frank Green.
I used to work Vice.
Now I work Homicide.
And there’s no time for rhyme
When there’s a murderer on the loose.
from one of my ongoing projects entitled, “The Continuing Adventures of Detective Frank Green”
Posted by Tom Busillo on June 2, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/06/02/the-dead-author/
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