04-01-2021, 11:18 AM
Lemon Giallo
A brass lemon drops from 10 stories
piercing Mrs. Endpool’s skull.
Ispettore Goccia di Limon knows
the difference between a lemon and a murder.
Both are sour
but the murderer is only after the sugar.
First there was the fashion model
choked on a lemon before it was a drop.
Then the prostitute drowned slowly in a bucket
filled with lemon syrup, drop by drop.
Two schoolgirls found the head
with its eyes removed and polished lemon drops inserted.
The Ispettore prefers cinnamon gum
But now he silently sucks on lemon drops
And haunts the candy and fruit stalls.
They say you don’t hear
the lemon drop with your name on it
and so it was for the Ispettore
as the tart bullet tasted his heart
and he dropped,
lemons spilling from his hands
and rolling down the Via Veneto.
A brass lemon drops from 10 stories
piercing Mrs. Endpool’s skull.
Ispettore Goccia di Limon knows
the difference between a lemon and a murder.
Both are sour
but the murderer is only after the sugar.
First there was the fashion model
choked on a lemon before it was a drop.
Then the prostitute drowned slowly in a bucket
filled with lemon syrup, drop by drop.
Two schoolgirls found the head
with its eyes removed and polished lemon drops inserted.
The Ispettore prefers cinnamon gum
But now he silently sucks on lemon drops
And haunts the candy and fruit stalls.
They say you don’t hear
the lemon drop with your name on it
and so it was for the Ispettore
as the tart bullet tasted his heart
and he dropped,
lemons spilling from his hands
and rolling down the Via Veneto.