Every cop has a dead file,
a folder full of an unsolved murder
and it will haunt his coffee every retired morning.
Some take the folder with them
study it at night
looking for something they had not seen before
This was not one of those files.
I thought they had done it
but they didn’t and there were too many suspects
Yet the file kept calling out: solve me.
There are unsolved crimes
and there are crimes we do not want solved.
This was one of those cases.
I found the one slender clue no one saw
then I was able to close the file and burn it.