Monday, September 01, 2025

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Sitting Out the Mystery

     Little wonder that home is a bright place to be
     if living’s your thing.
                                     —John Ashbery

This only makes sense in a place wherein
there are walruses crowing. Fantasy worlds
unite!! And it won’t be here, in this place, my
new home, much as I love it, am almost in love

with it. Because any living that transpires doesn’t
take place sitting solitarily inside a box of one’s own.
I say this from experience, he said inappropriately.
But the truth can be inappropriate sometimes. And

also simple, even as confusingly elaborate as some
whodunnits can be. If the mystery of having one’s
crossed legs half covered by the comfort of personal
bed linens, a torso in some semblance of upright

while catching the latest episode of Murder, She
Wrote intrigues you then how about we Freaky
Friday ourselves out of here to check out some
fresh new looks we lock into, meet with a few

fancy words or a tissue? Now that I’ve made
my point, I suppose I’ll hit resume and watch
the rest of the episode. Even though I’ve
seen this about a dozen times and know

damned well whodunnit.

Crime Crew?