Neville

When Dressed to Kill

When Dressed to Kill

 

She was quite unique

and in her

own way, stood out

from the crowd,

like the front bonnet

of a metallic

British Racing Green

   Alfa Romeo ..

In fact, it was whilst

she was still

firing blindly like that,

from the hip

   and on all cylinders ..

Like some

manic assassin,

in tears, tiara and her

torn matching

   green silk party dress ..

That I just so

happened, to catch

sight of all

the charcoal black

mascara

smeared unladylike,

across each

   of her flushed cheeks ..

As she began

to pick over those

numerous,

anonymous human

remains laying

still and face down,

in such

hideous and very

long rows

piled high in deep

   uncaring gutters ..

And when

precisely it dawned

on me in

a world of back

on back

uncertainties, I was

sure if looks

could kill, then she

would have

clearly made one hell

   of a serial killer ..