No Criminal Charge Poem by Dorsey Baker

He plans a murder
Plotted for many long years
Plotted down to the
Very smallest detail
The plot
It cannot fail
It has no flaw
Cannot be detected by the law
When he plunge the deadly knife
Into the flesh of the innocent lame
It will return sparkling clean
His knife
The murder weapon
Never found
Disappeared without a trace
So no murder charges
Will he face
In the man's mind
He thinks that he has
Committed the perfect crime!