Friday, August 23, 2024

NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS

If your innermost thoughts 
are a shot 
in the dark, 

then a poem 
is an ad hoc 
forensic investigation 

(though it's known 
a watched kettle 
never changes states,

and there's precious little 
justice to be sought 
from a syllogism):

residue from the murder weapon 
comes back 
from analysis;

there is loads 
of air-tight evidence—still,
no closure for the victim.