Poems of the Week

A Palling Crime

by Alex Steelsmith

“Woman accused of stealing casket with body inside from Las Vegas funeral home…
[and] dumping the remains in the process… [T]he body in the casket ended up lying
in landscaping in front of the business.”
KLAS

Plundery blundery,
caskets in funeral homes
shouldn’t be stolen, as
everyone knows.

Sometimes, according to
criminological
experts, the body of
evidence shows.